It Is All About Playing To The Audience

You know it is all about playing to his base and he just doesn’t care about how it affects other people.

DeSantis’ culture wars grabbed headlines — and legal challenges that cost $17 million
Miami Herald via Yahoo News
By Mary Ellen Klas
December 22, 2022

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political strategy has won national attention for his ability to shrewdly select culture war issues and use a compliant Florida Legislature to advance them.

But while the agenda has drawn more than 15 lawsuits, it has so far yielded few legal victories, and cost Florida taxpayers nearly $17 million in legal fees to date.

In case after case, courts have scaled back, thrown out, or left in legal limbo rules and laws that impose restrictions on social media giants, limit voting, curb gender-related healthcare, influence speech in the workplace, college campuses and classrooms and create new crimes for peaceful protests.

He knows that these “laws” will not pass Constitutional muster but they passed anyway. Why?

But DeSantis’ critics say the governor’s win-loss record is irrelevant to him. They see his strategy as one intended to garner headlines and use the state treasury to pursue performative policies intended to appeal to voters in the Republican base as he positions himself to run for president in 2024.

“Most people who go to court actually want to win,’’ said Bob Jarvis, a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University. “That is not DeSantis’ objective. He is all about winning the news cycle.”

That’s why. For political gain. Our lives are having forced to go through puberty and doing irrevocable harm why? So some guy can run for the presidency.

Teachers are leaving their jobs because because of the muzzles to the First Amendment and as a result children are being packed in over crowded classrooms, why? So DeSantis can be our next president.

“As with Trump, DeSantis’s political aggressiveness wins him admirers,’’ wrote staff writer Madeleine Kearns in November. “The tactics that some conservatives consider morally or philosophically dubious appear only to intensify his popularity.”

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As a result, the carefully chosen fights garner DeSantis “an enormous amount of attention on right wing media, which is more radicalized than the conservative leaning public.’’

And it is only going to get worst as conservatives well off seniors flock to Florida for the sun and as a tax haven and living in their gated communities. 

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Then we have those who want to control our minds by telling us what we can and cannot read.

Petition opposes change to Rapides library policy on books dealing with gender identity
Alexandria Town Talk
By Melinda Martinez
December 22, 2023


A group has formed in opposition to a proposal to prohibit content referencing sexual orientation or gender identity from the Rapides Parish Library’s children’s collection and is circulating a petition against the measure.

The petition started circulating late Friday evening and can be found at fightforthefirst.org.

Library Board member James Morgan proposed the measure during a public hearing Dec. 13, seeking to amend the system's policy dealing with books and other materials available to children preschool to age 17. The board is set to vote on the measure Jan. 17.

It seems like if one person complains they pull the books from the shelf but if dozens of people say that they want the book, they are ignored.

On its website, the group lists about half a dozen reasons it contends people should sign the petition. Among them:

• The policy change's true intent is to marginalize the LGBTQ+ community.
• Books should be discussed on their merits. Broad categories of books should not be banned as “obscene” without a critical look by librarians.
• The proposed policy revision is vague and does not define specific words that would be critical to enforcing it.
• Such restrictive policies take away parental rights to decide what their children read.

It is all about politics and rallying their base.

“I feel that it is a concerted effort to attack library freedom," Howell said. "We have a staff of professional librarians so it seems completely redundant and completely at odds with the rest of the library’s policies, which focus on openness of information and availability rather than restrictions.”

It is all about marginalizing us. It is all about making us the scapegoats of the evils in today’s society.

They say it is about “Saving the Children” but in reality it creates open season on us. Bias crimes against us has increased, bullying in schools have increased against us, and discrimination against us has also increased… where is “Save the Children” when it comes to us?