OT, I know, but I was just going through the WaPo's gallery. There's one photo that* both illustrates exactly who was left behind and refutes the unconscionable racism of those who'd just as soon leave them behind. Oddly enough, I haven't seen this photo printed or posted anywhere else.
There's probably some way to link directly but I don't know it. Go to the WaPo site and then to their photo gallery. Click on the tab for "Chaos and Relief." I'm talking about Photo 5. You must see it.
Back on-topic: The map is quite persuasive. Just to be safe, I'm relocating to a construction pallet in the East River.
*Which? I'm unclear on this distinction in the best of circumstances, much less when I'm shaking with rage and despair over what my nation has become. Sometimes I feel like I'm watching one of those time-lapse photos of beetles stripping a carcass, except that what I'm seeing isn't a filmstrip in 10th grade biology. I'd love to think that my despair is just overwrought, highstrung, English-major over-reacting. That would be a comfort, to think that there is, somewhere, someone vastly more knowledgable and competent than I am running things. But, as events have shown, that's not the case. If a freelancer with DSL has a better track record in predicting outcomes than the entire apparatus of the U.S. government, then we're all really and truly and thoroughly fucked.
Maybe the democratic experiment is in its "final throes." Maybe it's impossible for millions of humans, scattered across a continental expanse, to cohere around a single documented philosophy. There's always that slippage between the word and the meaning, which allows for all kinds of interpretations.
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