@doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world @StillIRise1963
Living in Florida and tangentially knowing some of the people who might push back, there's a pervasive feel of "Whatever we do will be rejected by the Governor and eventually the Supreme Court, so, why waste the time and money" at the moment.
@StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
I agree. I also see that Florida probably needs to be looked at as Texas has been by the Democrat Party, or they need to make an actual attempt to build party infrastructure.
I was looking for an article that I'd read recently, and didn't find it, but this one made a similar enough point that I think it works. Without an opposition voice, everyone in Florida just gets the DeSantis viewpoint.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/the-agonizing-fall-of-the-florida-democrat.html
(I know it's behind a paywall but 12ft works on it if you are so inclined.
@BE @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie please don't use democrat party. As Raskin recently made clear, it's disrespectful
@caragraph @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
You're not wrong, but my autocorrect will only capitalize Democrat, or change Democratic to it if I capitalize it!
@BE @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie democratic is correct
The party of Democrats too
The Democratic party is accurate
@caragraph @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world
I do understand, I actually have a political science degree, I just don't go to the struggle of correcting the auto-correct in casual conversation.
@BE @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie I feel your pain. I correct auto correct more than it corrects me, but I'll go the extra mile to not support right wing maggot talking points
@BE Seems like FL might be a great lab for younger Dems to get creative since the older ones bring nothing to the table anymore. @doctorjaymarie
@StillIRise1963 @BE @doctorjaymarie -
Our ONLY chance to defeat the fascist GOP is to maintain and EXPAND our Democratic BIG TENT. We can ONLY win if Black and White, middle-income and lower-income, suburban and urban, seniors and GenZ pull TOGETHER. We can't win without GenZ Dems, but we can't win with ONLY GenZ Dems.
@AmerLiberal @BE @doctorjaymarie I was talking about methods, not exclusion of anyone.
@BE @doctorjaymarie @StillIRise1963 the Supreme Court needs to be expanded or all the progress we've achieved so far will be overturned one piece at a time. It has already begun and it won't stop until the right has completely remade the country in their image.
@fritzcokid @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world @StillIRise1963
Yes, I was all for that when Biden suggested he'd look at it. Sadly, he didn't go that route, so today's reality is that the Supreme Court is what it is.
@BE @doctorjaymarie @StillIRise1963 it's still an option.
@fritzcokid @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world @StillIRise1963
In that anything could happen, sure. Biden already empaneled a Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court and they decided there was "profound disagreement" amongst them and the public on the topic.
Nothing happened then. Nothing happened after Dobbs. I don't know what would be the driving force today, especially since it would be up to Congress which is no longer controlled by Democrats.
@BE @doctorjaymarie That's some crazy defeatist nonsense. That type of attitude will doom us all.