Not really if you consider that Floridians voted this asshat into office. Twice. It’s more like they did it to themselves. It’s ok, they are happy about it, and the ones that can read have already left the state.
Regarding DeSantis winning the past two elections, the Democrats here have simply not put forth a competitive candidate against him;
Gillum in 2018, (who only lost by 0.4% of the vote,) who has since been indicted on wire fraud, conspiracy, and false statements charges
And Crist, the former REPUBLICAN Governor
"the ones that can read have already left the state."
This kind of rhetoric - painting Florida as a Republican wasteland - is what DeSantis and his ilk want.
Not everyone has the means to leave (poor, minors, etc.), and pretending like these people don't exist and disenfranchising them is playing right into DeSantis's hands.
There are also those of us that consider Florida our home and hate to see it being abandoned and left to be devoured by DeSantis.
Florida was a solidly purple state pre-covid, but now fans of DeSantis are encouraged to move here and anyone that doesn't like him and/or is threatened by his policies is encouraged to leave, strengthening his stranglehold on the state and giving him a solid base to work from.
If we instead encouraged people that don't like DeSantis to stay/move here and vote/take action against him, it would be much easier to remove him from power.
I'm at least one anti Desantis vote in Florida. And I can read too.
...but you're on teamevil
I know ...it was a reference to McCain (not bad) and Palin (numbskull) but quite frankly they are near saints to this bullshit.
I think saying things like this only helps DeSantis and is a disservice to all those who voted against him, those whose areas are so gerrymandered that their votes didn't count, and those whose votes were discouraged. I live in a state with a shitty governor too, but it's not like I voted him in. I've tried to vote in someone else every year since I've been able to. Please don't discount everyone else there. Not everyone is an asshole.
It's not like everyone in the state voted for him. Hell, the people buying into solar energy etc and trying to get rebates are probably statistically more likely to be the ones that didn't. There's also a state legislature that was put in place and decided to build those programs in the first place.
Don't turn this into a black and white us vs them and write off a whole state because of a bunch of down ballot voters.
The only reason he didn't get voted out is that ~400k COVID denying assholes moved here from other parts of the country in the span of a single election cycle.
So you're welcome for that I guess.
There you go, proof of great leadership. DeSantis is literally Making America [Outside of Florida] Great Again.
Not just the ones that can read, I'm sure plenty more would have stayed, if policies didn't directly affect their children.
I would hard pressed to stay knowing moving would stop any suffering for my kids
That’s about $16 per resident of Florida. It’d be a pretty telling election campaign to start tracking, in real dollars, what DeSantis’s nonsense costs the average resident. In declined federal dollars, in increased HOI, etc. Peeps notice when their hate and stupidity costs them money.
I think the biggest cost to Floridians will be in insurance premiums. And that's a lot more than 16 bucks per.
Oh, he's screwed Floridians out of much more than that. State lawyers for his unconstitutional measures alone charge $1700/hr and they lose most of the time.
Both of the “green home” rebate programs have mandatory DEI and quasi rent-control requirements baked in to them. It’s not surprising at all that Florida isn’t participating.
Yea because that would be good for the people. Fascist states hate things that aren't a blatant gift to the oligarch class.
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