DeSantis Flirting With Disaster

Everything that Governor DeSantis is doing in Florida isn't for the sake of Floridians.

DeSantis isn't going after Disney for any kind of corporate reform, he's going after Disney for questioning his "Don't Say Gay" campaign platform.

DeSantis isn't going after Critical Race Theory in our K-12 and academic educational system because it's skewing history, he's shutting down any discussion about racism because it dares hurt the privileged feelings of mostly White Far Right wingnuts.

DeSantis isn't going after trans people for any safety or health concerns, he's going after them to appease the religious wingnuts terrified of people trying to come to terms with who they are.

DeSantis isn't going after immigrants because of public safety or protecting our jobs from undocumented workers, he going after them to pander to the haters buying into the fear that the Far Right media keeps selling about "caravans of drug dealers" that never really show up. In the meanwhile in a wonderful sign of how our political hypocrisy works, our local businesses and farms that rely on undocumented workers are already panicking over the loss of those workers refusing to show up in fear of getting arrested.

DeSantis hasn't done anything to prepare this state for the upcoming hurricane season starting next month, he's done nothing to reduce the increasing costs of homeowners insurance that will fail to help thousands of residents if a big storm wipes out another part of Florida. 

DeSantis has done nothing about the growing climate change problems addressing this state, including an ocean full of seaweed clogging our Atlantic shoreline. He's doing nothing about the algae blooms caused by excessive polluting by the southern sugar cane industry near Lake Okeechobee. 

DeSantis is doing nothing except touring the planet setting up his 2024 Presidential campaign.

Everything DeSantis is doing is leading up to disaster, all because DeSantis - the Republican Party he represents - no longer cares about honest or even GOOD governance.

Read what Robert Coutinho, guest-posting at Moderate Voice, sees in DeSantis' posturing towards his Far Right voting base:

What struck me most about this article was not that DeSantis and the Republican super-majority in the Florida House and Senate would be willing to support such laws, but that they would be so brazen about doing so. They literally put them all together and touted the fact that they were doing it as a defying act, against what they called, “Woke-ism.”

Since, when one generally asks any of them what woke-ism happens to be, they stumble all over their answers, it begs the question, “What do they mean by Woke-ism?”

Now we know. This is what hit me so squarely in the face. This was the epiphany.

It has to do with the definitions of Good, and by contrast, Evil. Good, in general, is defined as that which supports life, creation, artistic expression, beauty, happiness, and joy. Evil is not a thing in and of itself; it is, instead, the opposite of Good. It is the absence of those things and/or the destruction, denial and perversion of those things that are good. Greed and toxic pride are included in evil because they inevitably lead to destruction...

So, in other words, the Florida legislature and Governor DeSantis created a law that was deliberately evil. They touted it as, “anti-Woke.” Since Evil is that which is opposed to Good, their definition of Woke must be: Good.

There you have it in plain, simple to explain, legislation folks. Destruction, death, pain, ugliness, are all anti-Woke. How do we know? The Florida government just enshrined it into law. However, at the same time, those same politicians are adamant that Woke-ism must be stamped out. It must be eliminated from out society. They insist that anti-Woke is what we must preserve, not the other way around.

To say it as Adam Serwer said it barely six years ago: The Cruelty is the Point.

Everything DeSantis is doing now is to create a visual portfolio, a grand list of dark accomplishments of all the people he's forced to suffer just so that the wingnuts who make up the Republican voting base will support him instead of trump.

Never mind the current polling shows trump's control over that GOP voting base remains stronger than ever, because trump is so naturally sadistic and cruel towards others that DeSantis could never compete like that. And yet, he will keep doing so in vain hope that by the primaries season next year trump is somehow out of the picture.

Coutinho is right to describe DeSantis' actions as evil: Our core definition of Evil itself is that it's cruel, self-serving, above all a "lack of empathy" as described by psychologist G.M. Gilbert who witnessed the Nazi leaders tried at Nuremberg. Nothing about what DeSantis or the Republicans are doing towards fellow Americans - be they Black or Latino or Women or Gay or Trans or Young - is for their good, or for the greater good of our citizenry in any way.

Everything DeSantis is doing is to get him elected to higher (more powerful) office by people as cruel and sadistic as he is.

And in the meantime, the evil expands upon inaction: All the things DeSantis is failing to do as Governor to serve this state is going to let the rot and toxin spread, to where the next natural or man-made disaster is going to be worse than all the ones he's failed to respond to already.

Gods help us. Florida is honestly going to wash into the sea before this is all over.