Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

[guyfriday]

But why is it that the disaster, which is affecting so many, and destroyed so much, has anything to do with political ideology?

Is the suggestion that while people were barraged by decimating powerful natural forces, left without any means to help themselves, we now should withhold help unless you 'qualify' socially somehow?

I get the point your making, and I feel sympathy for the notion (a very real possibility) that the political/ideological cast will use it project social virtue signaling.  This is what they do... it is almost ALL they have done in the past few decades.  Political opportunities are seized during disasters... I heard one of these politicians proclaim that once, a while back.  "It's all about appearances."

But my sympathy for suffering people is not dependent I whether I think they belong here or otherwise. 
When people need help... we help them. 
That was a core "American" value... not so very long ago... we've even helped those who once called themselves our enemies...

Of course, I don't want to see the government going out of its' way to 'find' the undocumented and give them support while other people languish because 'they are only Americans'... which I fear might happen - depending on how hard the party wants to "pretend play" social justice warfare.  Of course this might happen because of the lucrative amounts to be handled... by 'middlemen' and 'political appointees.'  

Politicians are screwing up left and right recently... someone should advise them that they really should stop talking... altogether. 
They suck at it because they have no true content to bring, it's all fed to them by committee. 
Let the committee talk - come out of hiding.

FEMA (and every other federal agency) is supposed to operate without "political" considerations... yet it is the "political appointee" the rules over them...  that's a problem.

I'm willing to bet that the rumors that FEMA was being used to launder money out of the taxpayer's hand, might be why all the fuss about lack of money is getting tossed around. Politics only became a thing when political players saw it as an advantage to exploit instead of helping the people. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is becoming the official FEMA motto at this point. 

All this fuss about impeding private citizens from helping out and limiting reports, which backfired grossly, is waking people up to a failed government, and sadly seems to be creating sparks near that "Civil War" powder keg.