The military is the Federal government. The idea that PR’s have given up on government is comical. They are a huge contingent of the Free Shit Army.
There’s a big difference between mainland, big and democratic east coast cities “Puerto Ricans” and actual island Puerto Ricans. Imagine an F2 tornado the width of your state sawing through the entire length of it for 16 hours. That’s what we went through. Both the local and federal governments here collapsed. That’s why we gave up on them and just carried on helping ourselves. Only the U.S. military was capable and able to project power and logistics into the disaster in a timely basis. That’s why I make the distinction.