On the contrary, I’ve read enough over the last week about the callous attitude towards the survivors of Sandy. There is no distinction in some people’s minds between the innocent victims and the political leadership.
For that matter, in their minds, there are no innocent victims. Even those conservatives who live there are not considered *innocent victims*. They are guilty by default for the simple sin of living where they live.
Those living in blue states themselves that went to obama have no legitimate business pointing fingers at others who live in blue states.
The callous attitude of conservatives towards others in the midst of their suffering, liberal or conservative, is worthy of what I read at DU. Liberals are not the enemy. Many of them are misguided, deceived individuals who I feel sorry for because they don’t get it.
They are our neighbors, just like the Samaritan in Jesus’ parable.
And even if they weren’t our neighbor but rather our enemy, and we don’t like where their politics got us, we are not off the hook for praying for them and showing them love.
A person cannot selectively harden their hearts. Once the wall goes up, it affects EVERY relationship. People who harden their hearts like that are only hurting themselves, making themselves somewhat less than human. It’s taking out of themselves what it is that distinguishes a human being from an animal that eats its young.
I kind of doubt that Jesus checked out a person’s political affiliation before feeding the 5,000 or healing the sick.
What you are seeing now on FR is simply a reaction to the Blue States who expect to be bailed out by the Red States for their own free spending ways.
The Gov. of NY wants the national taxpayers to pick up the tab for all of the disaster relief in the State.
That is why there is such a reaction to the legitimate suffering going on.
Most of my family lives in Con. so I know what they are going through.