God needs to flush the toilet.
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God flushed the toilet, was a common phrase heard through out Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina. Like a lot of states, we had one urban area that absolutely dominated state politics due to bloc voting.
Katrina was horrible. It flooded the city of New Orleans, especially the poorer sections of the city, such as the 9th Ward. Interestingly enough, none of New Orleans that was there in 1865 flooded...Not the French Quarter, not the garden district, etc.
But what Katrina did politically, was break up the liberal, urban bloc vote. It scattered those voters all across the state, particularly Baton Rouge and Lafayette, but even North Louisiana picked up people. Katrina also scattered a good portion of New Orleans to Atlanta and Houston.
So what happened? Crime rates in Atlanta and Houston shot up. Overall crime in Louisiana went down. Politics within the state changed. With an influx of more liberal voters into the very conservative areas of the state and Louisiana's jungle primary of the time, hard left and hard right candidates had a tougher time getting elected. Especially the hard left.
Turned out, the very dark cloud had a silver lining. Things that had been stalled for years, started to get done as new political common ground was found. And when people are faced with big problems that must be solved, the picayunish nattering is pushed aside and not considered important.
Which is why God needs to flush the toilet on the U.S. We've had it so good for so long, we've forgotten what is important as we continue to focus on and normalize the insane idiots among us.
I've said before, maybe we need a really good depression. Hard to press your drag queen lap dance day at the elementary school, when you're contemplating digging through trash cans for supper.
Or maybe a war, God forbid. I feel the country has drifted away from Christianity, which is a common glue pinning together much of our self perception of America as a country and many of the principles found in our Constitution. Their are no atheists in a foxhole and a little Jesus might do a lot of the country a lot of good.
Time to flush the toilet. Time to focus on the important. Time to focus on what unites us, as adversity is wont to do, instead of a time of little true community stress where every individual thinks his life and desires are more important than anything else.
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I think it's technology. Not just phones, but our jobs. Our work and personal lives have been abstracted out too far for them to make sense from a perspective of worth.
We used to find the uppermost tiers of Maslow's hierarchy in how we did what we did for a living, or how we lived our home life. Now, we have streaming services and internet personae but no purpose. So we invent purpose and self-actualization with social justice bullshit or a victimhood mentality. (Which is why I say we're still plenty religious, just often not in a good way.)
It's not liberalism. It's that parts of humanity has advanced incredibly at the expense of other parts, which are starting to atrophy. If we were all religious fundamentalists, the details would be different but we'd still have the same problems.
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I don't think things are as bad as we think.
Isn't it true that crime rates in the US were a lot higher in the 1980's?
