When this person said those words, they entirely failed to consider: how did these people end up like this?
If it weren't for your cost-cutting decentralization, if it weren't for pandering to voters and dividing the populace to create grassroots conflicts that prevent unity, if it weren't for your refusal to address opioid abuse because of pharmaceutical lobby donations, would this miserable place have turned out this way?
But evidently, these people don't think it's their fault.
"The government's tolerance and extensive welfare have already nurtured a habit among our citizens to blame us for everything." The Minister of Finance declared confidently: "They should be responsible for themselves, and yet they refuse to abandon their homes and evacuate, waiting instead for our personnel to risk their lives to save them!"
"So what? What's your point?"
