@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.
@BE @doctorjaymarie That's some crazy defeatist nonsense. That type of attitude will doom us all.
@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!
@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 @StillIRise1963 @doctorjaymarie democratic is correct
The party of Democrats too
The Democratic party is accurate