One of the interesting coincidences is that many of the areas that tend to get wrecked by weather disasters also tend to vote GOP. Weather gets worse due to increased chaos brought by climate change which then wreaks havoc and wrecks areas which vote GOP.

I really do feel for them. It's horrible to lose your home, your community, your sense of normalcy. These aren't just desserts. They're the failings of a civilization teetering on the edge of destroying itself, or at least destroying much of what it currently has.

The answer is we absolutely have to have more education, less animosity, politics has to be pared back from outright hostility to respectful disagreements, and we're going to have to pay for it as a society which means taxes.

Some of the more cynical posters have said that it's liberals who need to change. I've been standing here with open arms trying to reach out to conservatives. When somebody casually strolls by with a "FARK YOUR FEELINGS" t-shirt who ignores me or worse makes a rude gesture and/or comment there's really nothing I can do to reach that person. That person is gone from this world and gone from this civilization. Yet somehow I'm the villain.