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This is a tragedy for untold thousands of people. And no upside could possibly balance the scale against the downsides. The full human toll of Harvey, now a tropical storm, remains to be determined, but it's already steep. As of this writing, the official count of fatalities held at eight, but that number will probably rise. The economic cost will take a long time to calculate. And the emotional price – lost homes, heirlooms, pictures, worry, stress – can never be calculated.</p> <div class="mobile-dfp inline-ad-arrow hidden-desktop"> <i class="fa fa-angle-down flex-container-column flex-row-reverse"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mobile-dfp inline-ad hidden-desktop" data-inline-ad-count="1"> <div class="wrapper clearfix col col-desktop-6 col-tablet-6 col-mobile-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-dfp" id="f0q7SUV8BZhLJq"> <div class="pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300x250 hidden-desktop relative"> <div class="ad-caption-text align-center uppercase">Advertisement</div> <div id="news_opinion_1522" class="hidden"> </div> </div> <script>(function(){function loadAd(){window.serviceCallbacks.push(function(){if(window.services.dfpService&&window.googletag&&googletag.pubadsReady)window.services.dfpService.appendAd({id:"news_opinion_1522",adType:"cube",slotName:"/4011/trb.latimes/news/opinion",displayMobile:true,displayDesktop:false,isOOP:false,is5x1:false,dimensionsString:"[[300, 250]]",sizemapString:"",sizemapRefresh:"false",refreshOnPhotoChange:false,includeInA9:false,includeInIndexExchange:false,options:{ptype:"s",iab:"",apv:"false",
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While it was a journalistic faux pas not to get the men’s names, it almost made the story more endearing because it reinforced the idea that they were just normal Americans.</p></div> </div> </div> <div data-type="quote" class="card card-pull-left collection-item"> <div class=" card-content pullquote spaced spaced-top spaced-right spaced-left spaced-md "> <p class="quote-text spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md">Floodwaters washed away the nonsense and revealed the decency of the American people.</p> <hr class="spaced spaced-bottom spaced-xs"/> <div class="flex-container-row align-items-center spaced spaced-bottom spaced-md"> <span class='caption-text flex'> Share quote & link </span> <span class="sharebar align-right"> <button class="button button-icon button-icon-hover-accent " aria-label="share on twitter" name="twitter" onclick="window.open( 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Floodwaters+washed+away+the+nonsense+and+revealed+the+decency+of+the+American+people.&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fop-ed%2Fla-oe-goldberg-houston-silver-lining-20170828-story.html', 'share_popup', 'height=500,width=650' ); return false;" role="button" data-arctrack="socialShareTwtrQuote" data-referrer="" data-quote='Floodwaters washed away the nonsense and revealed the decency of the American people.' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <i class="fa fa-twitter color-accent"></i> </button> <button class="button button-icon button-icon-hover-accent " name="facebook" aria-label="share on facebook" onclick="window.open( 'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fop-ed%2Fla-oe-goldberg-houston-silver-lining-20170828-story.html&quote=Floodwaters+washed+away+the+nonsense+and+revealed+the+decency+of+the+American+people.', 'share_popup', 'height=500,width=650' ); return false;" data-arctrack="socialShareFbQuote" data-referrer="" data-quote='Floodwaters washed away the nonsense and revealed the decency of the American people.' target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <i class="fa fa-facebook-square color-accent"></i> </button> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div data-type="raw_html" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <div class="element element-rawhtml "> <p>All weekend, TV and social media highlighted stories like this. Granted, there were plenty of attempts to politicize the storm. Some had superficial legitimacy. Did Texas officials – particularly the Democratic mayor of Houston and the Republican governor of Texas – drop the ball in not ordering a mandatory evacuation? But even these debates lacked the bitter vitriol that marked coverage of Hurricane Katrina or even Hurricane and <runtime:topic id="EVWAN00045">Superstorm Sandy</runtime:topic>.</p></div> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Other attempts to bend an apolitical event to a preferred political narrative were more desperate and despicable. The Twitter account for an outfit called Charitable Humans unleashed a Cat-5 gale of schadenfreude at Houston's woes. Over a satellite image of Harvey: "Texas has been bitten by Karma, but they still have a huge debt to the bank of Karma." "I just can't bring myself to even consider providing aid to any red state, let them clean up their own mess."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>To its credit, the organization later deleted its account and released an apologetic statement saying its leaders were "horrified" by their social media coordinator's actions.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But the point was already made. We live in an ugly, tribal moment in American history. Indeed, the more representative story of the weekend came out of Berkeley, where "antifa" goons beat up nonviolent protesters and even a mere onlooker the mob mistook for a "fascist."</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>By comparison, despite the terrible plight of Harvey's victims, Harvey was the happy story, at least in one narrow respect. Politics is becoming a substitute for identity, even religion, for millions of Americans. How you vote, what team you root for on the cable shout shows, is becoming a signifier of who you are. The media fuel this attitude, in large ways and small, by turning the news into "narratives" of good people and bad people. This is an unhealthy development, regardless of which ideological uniform you wear.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>But politics and ideology are, or should be, downstream from all of the most important things in life, at least in America (it's a different matter in places like Venezuela or North Korea). Under normal circumstances this can be hard to see, never mind appreciate, because we are lucky to live in a fabulously rich and free society where people can afford to make politics into a sport or fashion statement.</p> </div> </div> <div data-type="text" class="card collection-item"> <div class=" card-content "> <p>Most of us can see this within our own networks of friends and family, where political differences rarely trump more meaningful bonds. 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                }
            }
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                    var s1 = d.createElement("script");
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                }
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        var url = _context + "/api/v2/render/chain/"+id+"?rid="+_rid+"&contentUri="+_uri;
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window.pageBuilder.loadAsyncFeatures = window.pageBuilder.loadAsyncFeatures || function () {
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                        var s = d.createElement("script");
                        s.setAttribute("src", scripts[i].src);
                        d.body.appendChild(s);
                    }
                    else {
                        window.pageBuilder._executeAsyncFeatureScripts(scripts[i].innerHTML); //eval isn't evil always.
                    }
                }
                for(var file in resources) {
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            scriptsToAdd.forEach(function (src) {
                var s = d.createElement("script");
                s.setAttribute("src", src);
                d.body.appendChild(s);
            });
            featuresLoaded.forEach(function(element){
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            });
        }
    var url = _context + "/api/v2/async/features?rid="+_rid+"&contentUri="+_uri;
    window.pageBuilder._getJson(url, function(resp) { injectAsyncFeatures(resp)});
};
window.pageBuilder.loadAsyncChains = window.pageBuilder.loadAsyncChains || function () {
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        var chains = d.getElementsByClassName("pb-async pb-chain");
        var ids = [].slice.call(chains).map(function (node) { return node.id; });
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window.pageBuilder.loadAsync = window.pageBuilder.loadAsync || function(){
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        window.pageBuilder.loadAsyncChains();
};

window.pageBuilder.loadAsync();

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