By Gary Bauer
There's a crisis in Palestine, but you wouldn't know it from the Biden Administration's silence. Of course, I'm referring to East Palestine, Ohio, not a fictional Muslim state in the Middle East.
Eleven days ago, a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, and a fire erupted. Eventually, the Biden Administration decided that the best course of action was to initiate a controlled burn. Residents in the area were forced to evacuate their homes.
In the days that followed, it became increasingly evident that this was a major environmental disaster. Fish and animals in the area are reportedly sick and dying.
People who returned to their homes are reporting serious health issues.
When it comes to the environment, we live in a hyper-aware atmosphere. We've declared war on our own energy industry in the name of saving the planet. Whole industries are being threatened because of climate change or some species of rodent no one has ever heard of.
Where are all the green groups now? Where is the EPA?
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has yet to demonstrate much understanding of transportation issues, was silent for more than a week about this railroad disaster. He's been too busy lecturing us about his concern that there are too many white construction workers.
As Ohio Sen. J. D. Vance put it, "The problem we have is that we are ruled by unserious people who are worried about fake problems instead of the real fact that our country is falling apart in some of the most important ways."
Our prayers go out to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, and the surrounding area. State and local politicians should be speaking up loudly. Why are the good people of Middle America being ignored?
Well, we know what the liberal elites think about Middle Americans. They're "deplorable and irredeemable." They're "Christian nationalists" and "semi-fascists" who are "clinging bitterly to their guns and Bibles."
Normally, the left would be all over this. There is a big push on the left to connect race and environmental "justice." But the whole area affected by this environmental disaster is vintage Middle America and reliably conservative.
Maybe that's why the radical Biden Administration doesn't appear to care much because they haven't figured out a way to exploit the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, to advance their left-wing agenda.
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