How did florida become a shithole btw? As a european for a long time i thought florida was a hotspot for queer culture.
From what I hear, it’s left wing in the big cities, right wing everywhere else. And the electorates or whatever they call them are Gerrymandered so that the right wing areas have more voting power than the left wing. Basically the local government is doing everything they can to keep in power, shitty or not.
Don’t quote me though. I’m an Aussie and it’s only my probably biased opinion.
This always gets me. WTF has the Democratic Party been doing this whole time? It always seems like they are always caught by surprise that conservatives are doing shitty stuff. Why is their messaging so incredibly shit? Why do they suck so bad at being the opposition?
(((Shh! C’mere… closer… They were never the oposition. That’s the point. It’s all an act and they’re following the script as written.)))
That’s a conspiracy theory, and demonstrably false based on voting records.
The only similarity is in how both capitulate to wealthy lobbyists, but to whom and to what degree are still different by orders of magnitude.
They aren’t even hiding the conspiracy, openly using scare parentheses
Are you dogwhistling some antisemitic shit with those extra parentheses?
They don’t spend much money or effort on Florida, that’s why. Also, Conservatives are actively moving to Florida in droves (largely from California), seeing it as some kind of bastion for their extremism and bigotry. If they spent the time and effort needed to change things in Florida, the rest of the candidates across the nation would suffer.
And as for the national efforts, Dems are still run by the same milquetoast moderates who think their privilege affords them the leeway to simply hope the extremist problem on the Right will just go away, rather than face the fact that it’s a cancer that will only grow if left unchecked.
As for messaging, I have no idea why they suck so much at messaging. They should take a hard look in the mirror and hire some new talent.
As a Floridian, I can say you’re spot on.
Not really, you guys are voting in DeSantis for governor and that’s not something that can be gerrymandered. The cities may be more liberal than the country, but FL is a GOP state at this point.
The Dems basically threw the last gubernatorial election by running Charlie Crist as their candidate, who was formerly a Republican governor in Florida who later changed parties. Gotta be the stupidest political move I’ve ever seen by the DNC. Even still, Tallahassee and Orlando voted for him.
In the last presidential election, Tallahassee, Tampa, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, and Miami all voted for Biden. That is why people say the cities are liberal, and they’re correct. I know this from life experience anecdotally, and backed up with stats. However, I do not think the state is suffering from gerrymandering. It’s more suffering from the poor state of our education system that leaves the rural areas to rely on mainstream cable news and their family’s opinions to determine who to vote for, which leans to the right.
Why do you think people gerrymander? Do they get money for it?
Seems strange to me to go into US politics to then to be anti democratic.
Are you asking why people who want to hoarde power would try to corrupt a system that resists their attempt to hoarde power?
They get power from it (and money), that’s enough reason for many to be anti democratic
Vox did a decent video on how the Republicans came to power there in the past decade, since it was traditionally a purple state (50/50 for either party).
climate change: lol I’m going to erase Florida.
The only good thing that could ever come from climate change is Florida being flooded out of existence.
@GlennicusM @ProdigalFrog Perhaps, but then we’d have a bunch of displaced legislative malefactors infiltrating other state governments
You’re right.
We should build a wall.
But that’s all right cuz they’ll just sell their homes to aquaman.
Edit: (tap for gif)
DeSantis and anyone who follows him really are fools. Same with the Trump fans. Fools. There is no other way to put it nicer. I hope the smart people in Florida step up and make some noise, but they are probably busy moving out.
Don’t you love it when the universe gives you the perfect gift.
Love it! 😄
Fucking glorious.
It’s such a missed opportunity. Climate change could be used as a blanket excuse for a boon in technology, construction, transport network development, urban redesign, an agricultural revolution and all the investment, tourism, etc that would come with that. Adapting our communities and ways of life toward a sustainable world could be an awesome process and something to celebrate. Any politician that sees this and runs with it will look like a hero for relatively little effort.
