Ron DeSantis says he wants to “make america Florida”
That means:
Mishandle Covid: lie about data, raid public officials, never distribute funds
Remove elected officials
Threaten teachers with felonies if they don’t remove books
Attack trans children, pass legislation to kidnap them from parents
Out LBGTQIA students
Demand student menstrual data
Remove companies’ 1A protections
Ignore 4A, 14A protections
Restrict reporter access
Allow rampant insurance fraud
@flexghost as a reminder, when people show you who they are, believe them.
This whole strategy has been playing out in real time. He continues to show the evil behind the mask but the system is so compromised at this stage it's not enough to cause action.
Voting has to stop these monsters or our society will have agreed that their evil represents us. It doesn't and we need to prove it at the ballots.
@helplessduck
The Florida government is so painfully compromised I don't know if the system is recoverable. But that being said, this isn't necessarily something that could happen large scale. I mean, it could - but it would take a while. It's already happening, but it's not quite there yet. He's had years to erode the system, they have had decades of movement.
DeSantis is a dangerous Fascist who absolutely wants the worst things to come to pass. We need to acknowledge that, reject it, and correct the ship in ways that provide a way through the anger.
People like DeSantis exist because the environments around him. He couldn't rise to power on his own - and like so many vermin he will scuttle back to the shadows if he can't find support.
@helplessduck
By showing them the other ways forward and coaxing the recoverables into recovery.
The problem with these conversations (I don't mean ours, I mean the world stage one we're discussing) is that they span years/decades. These issues didn't start with DeSantis, or Trump, or Bush, or even Reagan. This is all flowing back through time as things slowly started to pivot. Reagan nudged it, so did Bush, etc. but people tend to attach on the one name, point an accusatory finger and then stand there waiting for applause when they properly isolated one of the root causes.
It's not that they aren't right - it's that it's not the ONLY problem. It's almost a single-issue problem, but the causes and symptoms and all the other stuff boil down to a very dangerous point. We have people in the country who now believe everything said above and worse. They didn't start out that way - they started like we did. But they were nudged the other direction.
We need to unravel the hate. Provide transparent and whole solutions, calmly look the monster in its eyes and patiently triage the abuse to reduce as much damage as possible while rescuing survivors.
You might not convince 39 yr old "Billy the Hate guy" but you might help the family Billy is infecting. You might give Billy's optics the proper framing so he can't continue to hurt people and you can certain remove his ability to continue hurting others.
@helplessduck @mentallyalex @flexghost
He got re-elected because 1,000,000 less democrat-voters turned out last gubernatorial election. Why? Because the person running under the Dem ticket was our former REPUBLICAN governor. That most likely left a bad taste in the mouths of liberal and leftist voters, and they simply didn't vote.
@MeidasRomi character limit much like Ron
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I only have violent things to say at this time.
Face of a thug, portrait of a Fascist, favorite of the GQP.
@flexghost Much of his playbook comes straight from Hitlers:
"Under the authority of the Third Reich, teachers were obligated to join the National Socialist Teacher’s League...responsible for carrying out the educational goals of the Nazi Party, and to take an oath of loyalty to the Führer, Adolf Hitler."
In other words, he wants to make America #Gilead
@flexghost DeSantis is dangerous. I will be saying this a lot in the next couple of years.
Vote!
@flexghost
#DeSantis and the #Republicans are following the 1930s Nazi playbook as they try to raise their #FourthReich.
@flexghost the US government should stop subsidizing construction in natural disaster prone areas. Insane policy
Stop rebuilding Florida. massively increase federal insurance (or tax) so people stop building up beach front property that's going to be seafloor within our lifespans
@flexghost DeSantis and Pence should form a support group for People Who Will Never Be President of the United States.
Theoretically, Hillary Clinton also could participate, although she may already have recovered from her addiction.
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