It does seem to be a trend.
And part of the trend is to delegitimize the people,,call them labels and names. As if it couldn't possibly happen to the people who are complaining.
What I think people forget is that folks in NO have lived there for ages and ages with no great flood. Just like in California,,they settled there, families and ties are there. People who are old timers don't move on the threat of a disaster especially if there are long ties to a place.
My family has been here two hundred years, not in NO luckily. But I know people who have had generations of people living in NO, it is home. They don't leave easily. This time I do think alot won't go back home, home won't be the same.
"As if it couldn't possibly happen to the people who are complaining."
Actually, in my case, I have experienced it first hand. Hurricane Andrew trashed my place when the eye went by a few miles away. I am still fighting with FloriDUH bureaucrats who still don't want to issue permits to rebuild.
Government gone wrong is the core problem in FloriDUH and NOLA. While all of the citizens didn't vote for the corruption, enough did to allow it to occur.
Believe me, simply wasting other people's money with Federal funds when the government is corrupt is a wasteful approach. I've been through it. And it seems that you will soon see there what happened here. Probably worse because the rot is far deeper there.
I wish I had better news, but I honestly don't.