Originally Posted by keithfromxenia
You lefties are desperate, I mean desperate, for Floridians to fail, for the state to fail, because that will mean our governor has failed. The left is willing to do anything to sell the idea that florida is failing.

Case in point last week. The Business Insider, a reputable publication, published stats that said in 2021 more people left florida than left New York or Cali. 674,500 I believe was the number , well more than either state. It turns out that the report they got had reversed it, and that was the number coming in to florida, not leaving. The next day the Insider printed a correction. So no big deal.

But three days later, the looney, lefty writer Jennifer Rubin, from the looney lefty paper, the wapo, quoted the original stats to convince people that folks were leaving florida. She lied, she has no integrity. I believe the paper corrected the info the next day but Rubin showed herself to be a liar. Just to try to tear down desantis.

I see it a lot. Every time you read “don’t say gay bill”, every time you read we don’t teach black history in school, every time you read schools cannot teach about slavery in florida, know that it is all looney lefty lies.

I actually find your posting style to be a textbook example of the modern political epidemic. You believe there is a zero sum game, that there is only the "looney left" and the right, which I am assuming is justified in your mind. That anyone liberal wants Floridians to fail.

I do not want Florida to fail. I do not want Texas to fail, nor New York, California, any of those places. They are all part of the United States. I think that you are correct that there is a high level of schadenfreude that exists, but I think that it would be hypocritical for you to say that your views and writings on this message board present you any differently from those you are intending to combat.

One other thing that I do not understand is the bannerism that exists in politics, as exemplified in your post. You mention that people want DeSantis to fail after they have cited criticism of him. When it comes to thinks like insurance, his silence on certain issues, his unending war against Disney, his mandated tweaks of the law to keep less things from the public, and his sending of immigrants from a non-Floridian state to a non-Floridian state using Florida tax dollars, are those not fair criticisms or issues to cite? When I presented my first post on this board, I mentioned ver batim things I had heard from Floridian citizens. Not sure why that is "looney lefty" considering 2 out of the 3 people I mentioned voted DeSantis.

I don't think most people want DeSantis to fail. One, I think he's doing that all on his own, as far as the presidency goes. I was hoping he would at least present himself as a rational-minded alternative to Trump, because he's obviously smarter, at least. However, his strategy was extremely poor, and the shakeup in his staff demonstrates that. Two, you have to agree that, of the people who do want him to fail, a significant amount of them now are Trump supporters, and Trump himself. Not exactly a "looney left" thing. Three, are we really pretending that he, too, is not part of that "donor class" that you mentioned?