[ SECRET POST #5248 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5248 ⌋

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Re: Genuine question

[pantswarrior]

Answer from a Michigan resident: There actually are a lot of millionaires and billionaires that have shelled out SOME money to HELP Flint. And a lot of them come for photo ops so they can look like such magnanimous people, helping out this poor, poor largely minority community by unloading a truck full of bottled water. And then they basically do the Tuxedo Mask meme.

"My work here is done."
"But you didn't do anything."

There are some, however, who have made a sustained effort over years to provide bottled water and so on, and don't take freaking photos grinning in front of the pallets. They're doing what they can. It seems like the real problem is that while they did correct the worst of the problems, the entire infrastructure of Flint needed to be replaced, which takes time and has to be a government-oversight type project. And they have been working at it. But in the meantime there's not a lot that a private citizen (or even many private citizens working together) can do to get that done - all they can really do is keep passing out the bottled water until the government gets its job done.

And Michigan politics, much like Michigan itself, is... weird. I will spare the long explanation, but right now the GOP controls the state legislature except for like, a handful of the most powerful positions. Therefore although we now have a governor who is pretty awesome and at a bare minimum not a crook like Snyder, who is a large part of what happened to Flint, our state legislature is more interested in trying to do stupid crap to suppress minority voices rather than help any of their constituents. And especially the minorities. They don't give a crap about Flint, or Detroit, and would just as soon pretend they don't exist (see their BS during the last presidential election). And our governor has her hands full with trying to keep them from getting more people killed. I cannot imagine what a frustrating job it must be right now.