After multiple hurricanes, severe flooding, staggering death tolls, expensive rebuilding price tags, and the likes, the critiques that New Orleans shouldn’t exist, be rebuilt, or similar sentiments, are gaining traction. As Isaac just passed, people are voicing these opinions. Glenn Beck epitomizes this sentiment:
“I find it hard to feel sorry for New Orleans.” ... “We should just walk away from that city.
This is an eloquent statement of the rational argument for New Orleans. But let's not kid ourselves: Glenn Beck and his kind like the idea of abandoning New Orleans because it is a Democratic stronghold and a city with an African-American majority. That's their justification, not sea level or levees or hurricanes or anything else.
