"A Season in Hell" works differently than other political/social works on the subject because often they depict the people affected. You'll see photographs of people jumping out of the World Trade Center, or a Katrina victim on a roof. This is an effective tool where the viewer feels an emotional response and a connection to the people that suffered.
Instead, this work chose to show the people responsible for the suffering. Instead of feeling bad for U.S. citizens, it provokes anger at the administration. It's important to see both. Feeling bad doesn't always change things, but anger can. Basically, this piece showed such an extreme opinion of the current government that even if you do not believe it...it will make you think about it as the cause for the so-called demise of the country.
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