Puerto Rico managed to make it through Hurricane Maria without losing too many lives. Sadly, it becomes more clear by the hour that we will not be able to say the same thing about what happens going forward.
The dying has already started. Hospitals have no power. How do you sustain life for the critical with no power?
How do those with medical conditions survive without medication?
How does anyone survive without food and clean water?
The United States is the most powerful country in the world. We have sent men to the moon and a robot to Mars.
But, apparently, a relatively short stretch of ocean stops us in our tracks.
The United states has the world’s best equipped military. And yet it hasn’t been mobilized to tackle the largest humanitarian crisis to hit American citizens in our history.
Why is that?
And when the death toll starts climbing, as it most assuredly will, to what will we ascribe the horror?
Malign neglect?
Murder?
Ethnic cleansing?
We can stop the unthinkable from becoming reality.
Call your Senators. Do it now. DEMAND action on Puerto Rico.
Oh. And if you see them tweeting about anything else they are doing today, tell them off.
Pretty much everything else happening on the political front right now can wait. Puerto Rico can’t.
Make waves, DKos.