A Curious Instrument

At some point, a leader figures out that their entire nation has become "broken", I think the nation of the United States has become such a people and we are always very fortunate when we get a leader that can see our problems clearly and put in the very unfavorable work of trying to "right" things. 1 And it came to pass that Shez, who was a descendant of Heth—for Heth had perished by the famine, and all his household save it were Shez—wherefore, Shez began to build up again a broken people. 2 And it came to pass that Shez did remember the destruction of his fathers, and he did build up a righteous kingdom; for he remembered what the Lord had done in bringing Jared and his brother across the deep; and he did walk in the ways of the Lord; and he begat sons and daughters. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/ether/10?lang=eng&id=p1-p2#p1 Be righteous and have babies!

We have all watched the cries of pain and defiance as people that survived in the wake of Helene tell their stories. It is heartening to see the labors of the real heroes, neighbors and distant charitable folk doing all they can to bring supplies and hope to those who need it the most. Also telling are the government agents and agencies that kept a distance and made promises without any authentic help. Officials offered pitiful looks while busy about other desires far away, playing politics and placating those in pain from death and destruction with promises that "we are with the government: we are here to save you" and a failing promise to give, then deny, pitiful sums of money to not-enough-victims. The recent hurricane toll on people just brings up again to me that the Lord's commandment to 'love your neighbor' is far more effective in meeting our needs than a taxed and 'coordinated' government response. We see in the official response to Helene the rot...