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to the Middle Ages under that fucking piece of shit asshole.
And we still have free speech in CA, so fuck you, guv'nor.
Lovie777
(12,321 posts)Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)People are seemingly and increasingly, more lawless, entitled, and loud-mouthed.
At least that is how it appears to me in my rather mixed blue-red community.
I think the hate radio and fox news rhetoric are making my neighbors worse.
I watched the president of our HOA, who is a very liberal Democrat, take lessons from Trump/DeSantis and become very dictator-like. We now have a real problem on our hands.
grumpyduck
(6,246 posts)whining the loudest when their medieval dictator starts taking their rights away.
Karma, anyone?
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)This is such a common story. How many of us once had "liberal" friends who turned into something much more similar to RW monsters? Probably your HOA president was never actually liberal, even if sharing various goals of the Democratic Party.
I mention that because it's extremely common to confuse people who behave il-liberally with liberals just because in a two-party democracy they've been voting for some of the same things liberals do, while actually gut reacting a lot more similar to RW illiberals than liberals. This gives a very warped view of what liberalism and liberals are.
Also, some illiberal types are LW authoritarians, il-liberal as hell plus admiring of dictatorial leadership and eager for an authoritarian strongman leader to give their loyalty to -- your "dictator" president also?!
In any case, I'm guessing your president was like so many who may have ignorantly assumed he or she was on the liberal democracy side, albeit a bad fit, until this era showed maybe they didn't have to be stuck with what weenie liberal majorities wanted. They could stick their own choices to them instead.
Meadowoak
(5,556 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,181 posts)With the majority of the transplants being conservative, white MAGATs, it regresses.
Thats what happens when you concentrate the stupid.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)who uprooted her family...husband and kiddos to move here to MT to a 46 acre parcel of land where they are building a home. She home schools her children but she's not a religious nutter like a lot of home schoolers that I know. She has done a marvelous job of documenting why they left...the racism, the sexism, the anti-education movement in the state etc. Florida might not ever be retrieved. I'm happy this woman and her family came to MT. Two more liberal votes in my state!!
rubbersole
(6,721 posts)It is. Daily. Some nazi gave desantis a long wish list and a deadline. Meatball Ron isn't smart enough to think this shit up himself. (I live in east Central Florida.)