I don’t know where you all live, but in Florida, we’re…not having a great time. Regardless of what soundbites you hear outside of Florida that we ALL voted for this and blah blah blah, the truth is that the state was gerrymandered shortly before the last election allowing conservatives to gain control of all of the state house and senate. Because DeSantis appointed some judges, they overruled a circuit court judge that said it was likely unconstitutional.
The state has been purple my whole life. It’s always been a mix…but there’s been a takeover, and frankly it worries me for what it says about other states as well. It’s not funny. It’s fascism, and I while occasionally I’m able to peer through the gloom and think about funny things, it’s getting darker and darker.
I know I cannot live in the gloom, though. But I do feel like we need more people to SEE the gloom for what it is…a concerted effort by the far right to disable democracy by stoking fear to enable them to take power by any means necessary.
And, frankly, it’s just not funny.