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.
@BE @mloxton @mcopelov This line of reasoning relies on the idea that he was democratically elected which IMO is a hard argument to make given the extreme gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts in Florida. Like yeah he won the election but how democratic is an election if its not free or fair?
@Tortitude17 @mloxton @mcopelov
I see this point made a lot and I'll just make two points.
One, gerrymandering is impossible in a statewide election. The entire state votes.
Two, voter suppression is absolutely a thing, particularly in the south. I doubt that we can make the argument that led to an over 1.5 million vote difference.
Let's take the hypothetical that we could, in fact, say that 2 million voters were suppressed. If the federal government doesn't do anything about it, then I guess it's allowed by our federal government and, therefore, since it's the only oversight we have, it's legitimate?
