{"id":64427,"date":"2017-09-08T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64427"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:09:48","slug":"whats-the-only-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64427","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Only Thing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…better than watching Real Americans of all races, faiths and ideologies cutting the crap and helping each other out in a jam?<\/p>\n

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Across the [area affected by Hurricane Harvey], Americans are coming together to help each other. Despite the racial divisions exacerbated by small numbers of fanatics on the left and right, (and amplified by the press), out in the real America white people, black people\u00a0and Asians helped each other, men rescued women and children, and so on. The \u201cCajun Navy<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0which had so distinguished itself in response to flooding in Louisiana, took its boats to Texas and started saving people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why, it’s watching Big Left crabbling about it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

People who\u00a0spontaneously organize<\/a>\u00a0impressive responses might make the public feel as though government doesn’t have all the answers, and that self-reliance beats waiting for the government to solve their problems.\u00a0 Why, that’s troubling.<\/p>\n

Something like this mental process must have prompted New Yorker editor David Remnick to greenlight this\u00a0article<\/a>, titled “Why does American need the Cajun Navy?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I saw somebody on Facebook yesterday saying “I hate it when people in low-tax states ask the Feds for help”. \u00a0 To which I replied “everyone pays the same federal taxes, for the same federal “Services”, including disaster aid; if coastal states pay more per capita, it’s because incomes and cost of living are higher – and since when do you people not support progressive taxation?”<\/p>\n

By the way – does it seem to anyone else that “low-tax, low-service” Texas’ response to Harvey, one of the great catastophes in American history, is going a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>better than high-tax, high-“service” New York, New Jersey and Connecticut’s response to the fairly mundane Sandy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…better than watching Real Americans of all races, faiths and ideologies cutting the crap and helping each other out in a jam? Across the [area affected by Hurricane Harvey], Americans are coming together to help each other. Despite the racial divisions exacerbated by small numbers of fanatics on the left and right, (and amplified by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64428,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427\/revisions\/64428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}