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Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws | Grist (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

How did florida become a shithole btw? As a european for a long time i thought florida was a hotspot for queer culture.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

As a Floridian, I can say you're spot on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's far right everywhere else, and rightwing in the city. Democrats aren't a left leaning party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I agree with the sentiment. Neoliberals aren’t left wing. Some that caucus with Democrats are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's not. Yeah, we slipped right after voting for Obama twice, but we're far, far better off than the majority of red states. See: Mississippi, Louisianna, West Virginia, Oklahoma, well, about every one except Texas is worse off than us.

You hear a lot of shit about Florida for 3 reasons:

  • Our governor is a complete ass yet caught national attention as a possible Presidential candidate to run against Trump. He's spent a lot of time trying to go as radical right as possible.
  • Our Sunshine Laws are very liberal. The whole Florida Man meme comes from journalists have broad access to arrest and other records.
  • We're the 3rd most populous state. A lot goes on here. Also, the state is HUGE and wildly varied.