A couple of weeks ago we had a tornado that knocked out power for a whole lot of people for a day. Okay, no biggie maybe. But yesterday we had a downpour of Biblical proportions that washed out three bridges. This has never happened here before, not even in hurricanes. A town of 1,500 people has no way ever to pay for three new bridges. We'll see what kind of help we can get from the state, but meanwhile there are people who live between two of the bridges who are completely isolated from the road system. I don't know what they're going to do. This is getting to be the new normal everywhere.
Yeah, it's disturbing and frightening. Nobody died here so we can't complain. We aren't Florida or Libya. But who knows what will happen next time? No place is immune and it's just going to keep getting worse. We can build resiliency and we can retreat from the most dangerous places, but not if we remain in the very deep denial that seems to be the response of most of the world, including an entire major U.S. political party. How can you not see what is happening right in front of you?
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They can "not see what is happening" right in front of them (the "Republicans", aka "the party of death") by going more and more intensely into denial.
It's the mass equivalent of a person who weighs 650 lbs. and knows that they'll die if they don't change ... and the perform the magic trick that humans do by saying "FUCK IT" and they reach for another bag of Oreos and a liter of Coca-Cola.
That's denial. Make the blinders thicker, yell louder, refuse to hear or see. It's a survival tool run amok.
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