Texas Crisis Shows Disaster Politics Is Dividing America
Texas' junior senator jetted off to a Mexican resort town while his constituents shivered in homes without power or water. A West Texas mayor told voters he was "sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout" and their plight was not the government's responsibility. Governors from New York to Florida and California are under fire for their handling of the pandemic and vaccine rollout.
What a disaster.
The nation may be grappling with crises rooted in nature, but it is politics underpinning the response to the health and safety problems affecting people of all political stripes. While in the past, a hurricane or other devastating event brought communities and the nation together to help neighbors, the current crises are merely exposing America's deep partisan divides.
"In times of natural disasters, you try to put the politics aside and come together to rally around the flag," says Eric Stern, professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cyber-Security at the University at Albany. But when one studies the response to disasters recently, "you see that the politics is becoming much more cutthroat," Stern says.
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