Reason to Believe
By Callimachus | Related entries in Hurricane Katrina, Military, The War On Terrorism, The World
Disgusted with politics and politicians, with blame-shifting and trash-talking? Feeling let down by the government, on every level? Read “From Mississippi to Iraq and back.” It’s a story of war and hurricanes, families broken, homes destroyed, women persecuted, people on two continents who are, in their own ways, down on their luck and probably always will be poor. And believe it or not, it will put a smile on your face and make you feel good.
Among other things, it made me think of what Lincoln said three months into the Civil War when the North was bungling everything.
“In a word, the people will save their Government if the Government itself will do its part only indifferently well.”
Still true.
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September 14th, 2005 at 3:33 am
The Nast cartoon has a circle starting with corrupt big shots and ending with Nast’s stereotypical poor and illiterate Irish immigrant voters. Nast portrayed Irish immigrants in ways that today would be politically incorrect to say the least. The Tweed machine that Nast was attacking depended on the votes of Irish immigrants. Those Irish immigrants in turn depended on Tammany for patronage jobs and welfare, which, if it was available at all, was the responsibility not of the federal or state governments, but the city; and it was not a “responsibility”, it was unabashedly Tammany’s way of buying votes. Is the author of this update of Nast’s cartoon inviting us to compare Nast’s Tammany-supporting and dependent Irish immigrants to modern New Orleans’s government-supporting and dependent African American poor who were the victims of all this government malfeasance?