Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
@mcopelov
Well true in a perverse way - Floridians have every right to burn their state to the ground and undo every bit of progress since the 1400's. It is their state, and they have a democratic right to destroy it if they like.
Doesn't mean that everyone else should stand by idly and crack jokes about it or shrug. We all have a duty to at least point out the destruction, and help those Floridians who like modernity to save it.
Unpopular opinion, but true. We live in Florida and have made the decision to move, but, that doesn't negate the fact that DeSantis didn't foment a coup and he's not an illegal dictator. He barely won his first election, but he gained 600,000 more votes over that in his second election.
I've lived in 5 different states in my adult lifetime and he's by far the most popular politician I've ever seen. The people of Florida, mostly, love him. I do not. Therefore, it's probably not the place for me.
I tell people from outside of the state to point at Florida and make the decision not to become like it, but demanding DeSantis' overthrow from afar(as I often hear) isn't really democratic.
He also got elected legally, but the United States isn't a perfect democracy, especially in states where voter suppression and gerrymandering are the norm, or only a minority of the population votes. Ideally, in democracy, the general will of the people, or at least of the majority, determines the actions of power. Our elected officials don't always do what their constituents want or what is in their best interest; even if they weren't all corrupt, there aren't enough good people in power to overpower that corruption.
You're absolutely correct in moral vs legal in my opinion and it's a fair distinction.
What's hard for people I know from liberal areas to understand is that he *does* do what his constituents want, if we're going by majority rule. My friends in California and Washington find that incredibly hard to wrap their heads around, but it's true. Even more true for someone like Matt Gaetz who's from a particularly red part of a red state.
