{"id":2412,"date":"2016-03-24T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2016-03-24T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T23:09:39","slug":"brussels-and-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Brussels and Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2413\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2413 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA027.jpg\" alt=\"Brussels and Flint\" width=\"560\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA027.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA027-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/03\/JPA027.jpg&amp;name=Brussels and Flint....\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I guess this one came from experiencing one too many \u201cFlint made its own mess; let them suffer\u201d comments. I mean, I understand the sentiment. Anybody familiar with Flint over the past 40 years knows of the many poor decisions, the wasted resources, the sometimes straight-up corruption. (Is there a better cautionary tale of the bad that can happen when you elect an egotistical, speaks-his-mind, \u201csuccessful\u201d businessman who promises to make things great again than former mayor Don Williamson?) But even if you ignore the overwhelming forces of de-industrialization and globalization and say that Flint\u2019s problems are entirely self-inflicted, it would still not be in anybody\u2019s long-term interest to consider Flint residents as something less than other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In fact, it\u2019s exactly that sort of thinking that created the environment for the water crisis to happen. If you don\u2019t care about the people, it\u2019s much easier to flip that switch; if you don\u2019t care about the people, it\u2019s much easier to ignore the obvious and delay response; if you don\u2019t care about the people, it\u2019s much easier to point fingers and avoid responsibility. In Flint\u2019s case, we ended up with lead poisoning and deaths from Legionnaire\u2019s Disease. Now radicalize that uncaring, and we end up with terrorist attacks and dozens dead in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It all starts with devaluing human life, and no good comes from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this one came from experiencing one too many \u201cFlint made its own mess; let them suffer\u201d comments. I mean, I understand the sentiment. Anybody familiar with Flint over the past 40 years knows of the many poor decisions, the wasted resources, the sometimes straight-up corruption. (Is there a better cautionary tale of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}