> What's the diff between "I told you so" and pointing out all the
wretched shit that led to this disaster - racism, poverty,
environmental degradation, evisceration of the public sector, the
idiot complacency of our leaders, etc. This is big stuff, and how do
you point it out without "making people sick"?
Tone, and consideration of where people are at right now. "I told you so" at this moment is like Patton slapping that soldier.
Now, here's something that strikes me as effective (though not Katrina-specific), for some audiences and some purposes, effective enough that I contributed a few of my own memories. Probably you'd want to edit it for the target audience, and keep it relatively short--lots of ways to do that online with enough randomization to keep it interesting--and always keeping Scalzi's kicker at the end during Katrina:
"Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave."
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html
Thanks,
John A
see me fulminate at http://www.jzip.org/