lpnmajor wrote:
I was watching a documentary about the aftermath of natural disasters and the responses to same. I saw ordinary citizens rising to the challenge, rescuing folks, feeding and sheltering displaced people, helping neighbors salvage belongings and cleaning up, and all the 100's of other activities necessary after a tragedy. None of those ordinary people worked for govt agencies or NGO's, they were simply fellow citizens able to help. Many of those helping after a disaster were themselves victims, people who'd lost everything, yet they still pitched on to help others.
That's the American way, yes? That indomitable spirit, the "can do" attitude, the "pick up your britches and get to work" psychology. We've seen it over and over in the last decades, during floods, storms, earthquakes and wild fires. We've seen people from other States rushing in with what ever equipment they had, air boats, boats, trucks, heavy earth movers, wh**ever was needed. Food, clothing, water, medical supplies, even personal toiletries, wh**ever was needed, came in to the affected areas by the truckload, independent of any govt efforts.
Watching all these people doing what needed to be done, I could not identify which were republicans, were democrats, were liberals, or which were conservatives. I couldn't see what their religious affiliations were. I couldn't detect anyone's sexual preferences either. I saw no clues to anyone's ideological, religious, sexual or partisan bent. I saw no one asking for such information before rescuing them from rising flood waters or advancing fires, before feeding hungry people after a tornado or hurricane, I didn't see anyone asking for such information.
The point is, when our fellow citizens are in dire straights, we abandoned our daily warfare over such crap and get to work helping where we're needed. When a disaster strikes, we drop our partisan, ideological and religious uniforms, leaving us in our American uniforms. Then, when things settle down, we redress in those discarded uniforms and the warfare continues.
I posit that our people are in dire straights, the we are in the midst of a natural disaster even as we speak, that resources are scarce...............................that it's past time to drop those worn out uniforms and stick to our American uniforms......................and get to work. Our neighbors need us.
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