It's easy to feel detached from the whole mess sitting cozily in your own warm home.
Logically one would think that the NYC hurricane is precisely the reason we have government; isn't this where we want our tax dollars to go? To help the needy?
If you've looked at the Drudge Report at all, you know that government is not responding the way it should.
People are dumpster diving for food in NYC: senior citizens, families, people who a week ago never thought they'd be in this position are in need of the basic necessities of life.
There's no water, no electricity.
Lines are six hours long, if you're lucky enough to find a station that has gas, to fill the gas tank.
Bloomberg, who opportunistically endorsed Obama yesterday partially because of the "climate crisis," has decided to party on with the NYC marathon, thus diverting generators, water, hotel space and sustenance away from the needy and toward the marathon runners, who will be run around the corner from where people died a few days ago and where people are living third world lives.
You'll remember Bloomberg is the mayor who scolds drivers in his town for not having 3 to a car but who indulges in such ridiculous amenities as this room air conditioner hooked up to his vehicle to make sure he doesn't have to be exposed to the heat from the New York Post:
"Comedy" host Stephen Colbert continues to embarrass himself; watch this video from The Blaze and wonder how many of those fans in the audience laughing at food insurance during this skit are now themselves scrambling for something to eat and trying to stay warm.
You're just making too big a deal out of this Obama scandal where four men died, fighting to their last breath, waiting for help to come, staining their machine guns with their own blood even as they began to die.
You're making too big a deal out of these deaths, doing dramatic narratives of where the men ran from a safe house into the fight.
You're making too big a deal that our military leaves no man behind and yet we did.
Obama was too sleepy to send support to the firefight, but now that he can strut in front of a camera wearing an Air Force One military jacket, claiming that no one will be left behind in the wake of the hurricane.
Just lean forward, he says, innocently borrowing a phrase from his campaign to underscore what a great leader he is, in spite of having left men behind in Benghazi.
Politics.
And those New York City Leftist elites who so sympathize with the Occupy movement?
Who excoriate conservatives for their support of capitalism?
Who call a successful businessman like Romney a felon, a murderer, greedy, selfish?
Why, they wouldn't let a tragedy get in the way of their Halloween parties? They just moved to fancy hotels while their power's out, never mind the hunger and needs of the 99%.
If you can stand it, you can see their "costumes' and read the party details here.
Meanwhile, though the Red Cross and the feds and FEMA are nowhere to be seen, Glenn Beck's charity organization has already been in, having raised a million dollars to help the hurricane's victims:
Yeah. Leave no man behind.
That seems to be all the government does these days.
They certainly don't want to hear what we think.
And they have to be shamed into doing what's right.
This behavior brings to mind an old Poe story called "The Masque of the Red Death."
The titled wealthy manage to escape the threat of the plague by retreating to one long party at Prospero's castle, where they ignore the outside world and continue enjoying life as the elite think they deserve.
Alas, even the wealthy cannot escape the plague or judgment or death.
Such foolishness seems to have repeated itself, if not in fable then surely in life itself.
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