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I am tired of winning so much
It’s a real question if small town America survives this, they are already hurting and the lack of federal disaster support could kill towns all over the nation. They just don’t have the resources to survive something like this on their own.
It’s also a question if they will realize the reality, that the whole concept of “Freedumb!” is what has put them in this place, and that it’s the Republican responsible for their state of affairs. I highly doubt it, the propaganda from churches and the Republican party have convinced them that the people who would help them are evil, and they will probably continue to believe that despite the evidence to the contrary. We may get past the urban/rural divide by Trump and the Republicans following policies that wipe them out, which would be quite ironic.
The population of Helena-West Helena is 3/4 African-American.
Forty percent live in poverty.
It has been abandoned, and I think it’s by design.
But I’m sure that in Red States, little towns featuring 75% or more whites are getting all the help they need.
Just the GOP buying votes the old fashioned way.
Again, by design…
This is a heartbreaking and maddening story.
Nobody - and I do mean No. Single. Person. - should be knowingly and willfully abandoned to suffer in times of unforeseen natural calamity. We’re the greatest nation on Earth, aren’t we? We’re the richest economy on Earth, aren’t we? We’re the most charitable and kind society on Earth, aren’t we? Then why?
(I sure hope Current Occupant meets up with Lady Karma sooner than later, so she can pay him a measure of just rewards for his role in dragging us down to where we are now.)
Don’t fret. The billionaires have been spared a most horrendous fate. For Republicans, poor people just aren’t worth it.
I’ll never understand how charity has become a vice in this so-called Christian nation.
A natural and inevitable consequence of making selfishness a virtue…