This is one powerful diary over at Kos. Go read the whole thing:
They would move heaven and earth to save the life of one White Woman in Florida to combat the very idea of euthanasia (which technically it was not). A woman that a decade earlier had lost her ability to so much as ask for help, much less have coherent thoughts about the quality of her own life.
And they would sit on their ass and watch as tens of thousands of poor men, women, children, babies, and elderly bake in the New Orleans heat surrounded by water, sewage, gasoline and an abandoned city, now devoid of anyone with the means to have escaped ahead of the storm.
This is the culture of life. The culture of life wants to save brain dead white women and unborn children. The culture of life wants you to watch endless non-news about the disappearance of one white teenager in Aruba. The culture of life wants you to support your nation as it kills tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians in its Quixotic quest against a non-threat. The culture of life wants a zero-tolerance for looters policy to sound authoritative as babies die of dehydration. The culture of life expects you to take care of yourself, and if you can’t, then it is your own fault for getting into that situation in the first place. Fuck off. You had your shot. Station in life, where you hang your hat, and whether you have the $40 at the end of the month to pay for the overpriced gasoline to get out of that home in time is all up to you.
Always I have argued with Republican friends–the reasonable ones–that not everyone was dealt the same cards on their original Birth Day. Not everyone has been given the same gifts by God, friends, family, or luck. Always those Republican friends believe that they deserve where they have gotten in life, and that no one, including the government, should be asking for their hard-earned cash to help the less affluent. It is always the fault of the lesser-affluent themselves. Circumstances are irrelevant in all cases and constitute class warfare if the question is raised.
Bullshit.
As always, a false feeling of self-entitlement forces many to show their true colors. “I deserve this” has become the hateful mantra of this country’s century, because merely by its presence do we judge others unfit for similar treatment.
Great thoughts, and a great blog! Cheers.
I found myself wondering this morning as I read of the people dying from dehydration in the streets of New Orleans — where are the moms, dads and little children lining up outside the police barricades, carrying their little pathetic glasses of water to give these people a drink? Terri Schiavo was brain dead and they could spend weeks camped outside her hospice, making their stupid little gestures. I want to see them standing on the highway in Louisiana waving their signs and carrying their little glasses, willing to be arrested by the authorities so they can bring these living, awake, desperate residents of New Orleans a glass of cool water.
Hypocrites.