Maybe this will finally get younger Floridian voter to the polls and stop letting retirees dictate their state rights. DeSantis is a plague on the people.
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They will just leave.
Mickey Mouse will be played by a 75 year-old with a bad hip who is unable to retire due to the policies put in place by the people he voted for.
Tragic, it's a human right, but us as the last years, do everything they cant to remove human rights so i'm not surprised. Having smal dictatorship countries inside a bigger country
It's horrifying, but these are not dictatorships. DeSantis and his legislature were voted in by the people of Florida. DeSantis is not just stomping all over the opinions of Floridians, he represents those who showed up to vote. If we let only the cruel vote and choose our leaders, those leaders will be cruel.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/states-felony-conviction-voting-rights
Virginia, Tennessee, Iowa and Kentucky still have policies that result in at least some US citizens being effectively shut out of democracy for life. Several other states, including Florida, Alabama and Arizona, predicate voting on having enough money to pay off court fines and fees – another barrier that makes it nearly impossible for low-income Americans to regain the right to vote.
I would never deny that voters are disenfranchised and I would hope that most politically engaged people understand that it factors into these discussions. At the same time, it's not an explanation for all non-voting. Some of these laws have been around for longer than most of have been alive, and some of these states have been blue. Even setting aside the state-level government, there are local representatives and officers to elect. It all matters and a rising tide for any one factor will lift the other boats. We can all focus on what we are passionate about and join together so our efforts contribute to the whole.
They are voted in off lies and media spins. My mother is a stark supporter of Desantis and over and over again stated that abortion bans were just supposed to be up to the states and Florida wasn't going to change theirs. That it is just liberal media making it up. There won't be any wake up calls for them, they will be spun on the next bs that's thrown up into their lap
Sure, okay. I agree that people are being manipulated by media and that politicians have lied. Now what? Are we going to just sit and hope it corrects itself? Fixing any of the problems our country or the world are facing is going to take a multi-faceted approach across all sorts of diverse groups and ideologies banding together to shut out the unacceptable ones. Part of that approach will be voting out the conservatives where it is possible and encouraging and aiding those that are "softly" disenfranchised via misinformation or inconvenience to vote. Anything else is just giving up, and we cannot do that.