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That's right, you did. Including this. Put on the big girl pants and own your fuckup, but know you won't be forgiven. Ever.
We play this game every four years. New President, new crisis, new media cycle of people screaming "This is only happening because you voted for the Other Guy!" Congress and the White House change hands, and then we do it all again.
Nobody seems to want to confront the fact that these kids were camped in the middle of a fucking flood plain at the start of Hurricane Season. Or that the constant cuts to state agencies and monitoring services - cuts that have been ongoing since the Nixon Era, under virtually every administration - have degraded our ability to prevent these kinds of tragedies well past the point of a single administration tinkering around the edges of policy.
We all just want to screw our eyes shut and say "Your kids deserved to die because you voted wrong", which is an fucking insane thing to believe and exactly the kind of magical thinking that got us to this point.
Despite the cuts and everything, they were still warned of the potential of floods. The camp chose to ignore it.