California vs. Florida: A tale of two Americas
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent the weeks since his reelection warring with woke enemies: picking a $2-billion fight with the worlds largest money manager over its environmental policies and vowing to go to court to defend a new law that blocks teaching about racial oppression and white privilege.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent time since his reelection attacking DeSantis on Twitter and in an op-ed and spoken comments while promising to make his own state a haven for many of the practices the Florida Republican opposes.
Hes cruel, the Democrat said of DeSantis in a recent interview. I have no respect for bullies and people whove made their entire political careers on attacking vulnerable communities.
If Gov. Newsom is looking for any pointers on successful governance, he can follow Floridas lead, DeSantis spokeswoman Lindsey Curnutte said in response to Newsoms comments.
The states are becoming two of the nations biggest ideological rivals. Superman has Bizarro, a powerful antagonist who resembles him from afar but has the opposite instincts. Florida and California have each other.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-18/florida-anti-california-newsom-desantis
California has always been a punching bag for other states. Guess it comes with being the fifth largest economy in the world.
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(4,045 posts)Take Florida out and no one would miss that humid, mosquito-infested backwater. And the Federal government would save tax dollars, not lose them.