There’s a lot of nonsense coming out of the far left in the wake of Katrina, and they’ll be more to come. The worst that I’ve seen comes from The Brad Blog who contemplated starting a crusade to discourage blue staters from giving to hurricane victims because they were in red states. You can read the whole tirade here, but this is the gist:
So why was I thinking of starting a movement against giving aid to the stricken areas?
Because these are red states. They voted for Bush. These ninnies obviously wanted these policies, and they deserve to live with the consequences of their votes.
A large part of me still believes that many of these W-worshipping numbskulls deserve to suffer and to die. They brought it on themselves. Let them look to Jayzuss for aid: It’s time they stopped leeching off the more productive blue staters.
(Californians stupidly give much more to the federal government than we receive from it; the money flows in a very different direction in the red states.)
So, at least, I started to write. But then (to paraphrase the old song) I thought I’d better think it out again.
Many of the victims, the ones who have suffered the most, are poor. The hardest hit were the blue state folk living among the red state maniacs. New Orleans, we should note, went heavily for Kerry.
And that’s why we must help. Although it was very tempting to say otherwise.
I’m not going to waste my time refuting this absurdity point by point, but it is amazing to me that there are people out there who allow their hatred of Bush to become more powerful than any other emotion or impulse they may have. Liberals are supposed to be the compassionate ones, and yet this Brad fellow has to consider the red-state/blue-state divide in deciding whether it’s appropriate to give aid to people whose lives have been shattered and are still at risk.