This true fact is what convinces me that our society is beyond saving.
We have glorified and sanctified a culture that doesn't just eschew any belief or action in furtherance of the common good: we have turned such things into hallmarks of pure evil. See, e.g., Kerr County officials and their constituents not just refusing, but RAILING AGAINST, flood warning measures and funding because the funding arose under "treasonous, communist" administrations of Obama and Biden. We do everything we can to AVOID taking measures that would help the public at large, and then....we suffer the consequences.
And we have seen what happens in the aftermath. Stonewalling, denial of responsibility by those who directly acted (or failed to act) to prevent tragedy....and then nothing done to meaningfully change things to prevent future tragedy.
So, yeah....calling out our total and complete social and political failure is not just okay, it's fucking imperative. If you care about a single one of the lives lost, then you should make it your mission to ensure that not another life, not a single one, is unnecessarily lost due to the same causes: demonization of the common good.
Instead, we know -- with 100% certainty -- we'll get more of the same. And what is more of the same? The political leadership that has set policy, and driven the tone of society and our policies, for over a generation....will deny and avoid ALL responsibility, will continue down the same path, and will ensure that we get another Uvalde, Mystic, Uri power failure, etc.....in the coming months/years. So, none of y'all who are upset about that gal's comments need to worry your pretty little heads about it another second. All will be well, there will be no true accountability, no true consequences for those who made choices that cost lives, and no meaningful changes on either the micro or macro level will happen.