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DiSantis has been running a heavy pressure campaign on the Democratic politicians in the blue stronghold of Central Florida. Now he'll have to fight on two fronts.
A Dem winning in South Florida is HUGE, the Republicans always had the Cubans reliably locked up, but this demonstrates that the Cubans aren't seeing this administration as Republican friends, they're seeing them as MAGA enemies.
Despite that, Florida will remain safely Red for a long time. MAGA has a strong lead in registered voters, and they still are in full control of most up the peninsula, and all of the Panhandle and North Florida.
I'm curious how much of their stronghold is based off of temporary (old fucks) voters and those who moved there during Covid but may leave if things get rough. I just wonder how much of the Republican vote in Florida is because of long term native population vs shorter term foreign (out of state) population.
Florida was famously an extremely purple state for many years, with nearly the exact same number of Rs and Ds. For many years, Florida had one Republican senator, and one Democratic senator.
Then MAGA hit, and Trump and DiSantis promoted Florida as MAGA HQ, and a lot of MAGAs started moving from Blue Northeast cities, and today there are a LOT more MAGAs than Dems. I just met a couple last night, who just moved from NYC to The Villages, which is a big MAGA stronghold, with about 90% loyalty. I didn't ask, but I assumed they were MAGA.
The biggest Blue stronghold is Central Florida, and DiSantis has been harassing Central Florida politicians for years, investigating them for nothing, replacing Democratically elected politicians with MAGA operatives, etc.
Besides that, ever since Florida veered big into Election Fraud in 2000, stole a presidential election, and suffered absolutely no punishment, Election Fraud is Standard Operating Procedure for Florida MAGAs, and no Democrat ever wins anything unless the Rs allow it through gerrymandering.
Florida is going to remain Red for long time.
Also remember there is, and has always been, a reliable pipeline of old fucks moving to Florida to retire. They are mostly conservative, and boy are they reliable voters.
It’ll take at least 20 years to undo the damage, but probably closer to 30 or 40. You’re going to have to convince an entire generation of un/under educated people that they were un/under educated.
The Supreme Court can be fixed a lot faster than FL. The problems in FL are now institutional and happening at the educational level. If we somehow waved a magic wand and fixed the education in FL tomorrow; it'll still take at least 18 years until those people start working and integrating into adult society.
It's not a political situation, it's a societal problem. We need at least an entire generation replaced or re-educated, all these R voters aren't going to just change their minds and stop being bigoted Christofascists.
By the time Florida will be able to fix all the problems locked in right now by their willful ignorance the state will be largely underwater from sea level rise. I wish this was hyperbole but depressingly it isn't. Whoever may read this that lives in Florida, leave Florida if you can I implore you. Florida, much like Texas, is a multi-layered multidimensional Death Cult, except Florida will collapse from being submerged under water rather than from running out of water as Texas will.
remember the principle of "sooner than expected" here for climate change too, we are absolutely underestimating these things
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Florida-base-map-showing-extent-of-submergence-associated-with-an-atmospheric-temperature_fig1_269420499
One good hurricane with a gun.
Why does this sound like a crappy sequel/spinoff to Sharknado?
Sometimes shitty movies are fun if you take them for what they're worth.
It would have to be the first step in a very long series of events that ends up unfucking them. Any traction they try to gain will be fought tooth and nail with scare tactics and lies to a TON of people that are ready and willing to accept any world-view affirmations as wrote.
A lot of people moved to Florida because they want it to be fucked exactly like it is and changes to the cities will likely breed more contempt than it enacts useful change.