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Is Ron DeSantis the Republican Michael Dukakis?
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/03/21/is-ron-desantis-the-republican-michael-dukakis/by Bill Scher
March 21, 2023
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. . . DeSantis wants you to believe people are newly drawn to Florida because, under his leadership, its where woke goes to die. But its still the same old Florida where people go to die. (Gods waiting room, goes the old joke.) In 2010, 17.3 percent of Floridas population was 65 and over. By 2021, the senior citizen share of the population had grown to 21.3 percent, while the share of people under 65 went down 2.2 percentage points. This longer-term trend has continued through DeSantiss reign. Since 2018, the senior citizen share has gone up 0.63 percent, and for other adults, down 0.45 percent.
Even DeSantiss claim that Californians are dramatically rushing into Florida is suspect. The Los Angeles Times recently found, The total of all those moving from California to Florida amounted to 29,000 people, based on changes in drivers licenses. IRS data suggest that the total might be a few thousand more. Thats not even one-tenth of 1 percent of Californias population of 39 million. And its largely offset by Floridians who move to California: For every six Californians who left for Florida last year, five moved into the state from Florida, according to data from Moodys Analytics and the credit firm Equifax. And as with Floridas overall graying population, Almost one-third of Californians who moved to Florida were 50 years or older, compared with about 20 percent for those moving to all other states.
Unless younger workers relocate to Florida at a similar pace as retirees, the states economy will likely get squeezed. University of South Florida economist Michael Snipes told the Tampa Bay Times in December, We have all these (older) people coming in from out of state with new income thats been driving a lot of growth. But if you dont have workers available to meet that growth, thats going to put pressure (on the labor market) and cause prices to increase at a really high rate.
If DeSantis actually cared about governing, he would put effort into making his state attractive to younger workers. But what he really cares about is pandering to rabid right-wingers in early presidential primary states. So, he cooks up culture war stunts designed to attract Fox News coverage and light up conservative social media accounts, even though that makes Florida repellent to many voters from Generations Y and Z. . . .
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Is Ron DeSantis the Republican Michael Dukakis? (Original Post)
swag
Mar 2023
OP
LOL..or wore white high heel boots!!!!! and why the comparison with Gov. Dukakis..
asiliveandbreathe
Mar 2023
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dchill
(38,447 posts)1. Do you think Michael Dukakis ate pudding with his fingers?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)3. LOL..or wore white high heel boots!!!!! and why the comparison with Gov. Dukakis..
perhaps small d satan will be a prez candidate "now you see him, now you don't"..sure hope so..Gov. Dukakis wasn't so bad..just the media during his run mowed him over..tank and all..let's hope the media of today..mows over small d satan..along with that other treasonous ahole!!!
slightlv
(2,769 posts)4. Don't they only do that to Democrats? Seems R's always get the breaks!
ThoughtCriminal
(14,046 posts)2. And then there's the other problem
Rising sea level and the impact on fresh water supplies.
Wonder Why
(3,115 posts)5. I don't remember Dukakis preaching a policy of hate.