How someone votes doesn't limit my compassion for them. n/t

[cynatnite]

[atreides1]

1. Then you're a better person then some.

[SlimJimmy]

2. My sentiments exactly. I find it discouraging to see so many post here politicizing this event.

Let's get out the help needed, show a little compassion, then worry about the politics later.

[ananda]

4. The problem is that THEY politicized Sandy.

No disaster should be about politics, now, should it?

And don't even get me started about Bushinc and Katrina....

[SlimJimmy]

6. Yes they did, but that is absolutely no reason for us to do it. Ever.

[bighart]

3. I think if someone else's voting record influences the level of care or compassion you have for them

you are nothing more than a political hack that only values those who are politically just like you.
Isn't that one of the traits of rabid fundamentalist types?

[HappyMe]

5. Some things are human events,

not political events.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. But soapboxing on top of tragedies is just sooooooo much fun.

[geek tragedy]

8. Not, but resources are finite.

Either "we're all in this together" applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Word. nt

[jeff47]

10. No, but they need to learn their vote has consequences.

I have plenty of compassion for teabaggers in Oklahoma who keep voting for people who cut disaster aid.

That doesn't mean those teabaggers are off the hook for those votes. They need to learn they aren't just voting for their team. THey need to know that their vote has real-world consequences.

The problem is I don't have a way to accomplish that. Just handing out aid anyway has failed - the teabaggers don't make the connection that their votes are imperiling that aid. But not handing out aid is horrific in itself.

So something has to be done. I don't know what that something is.