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Pizzo’s announcement is just the latest blow for Florida’s beleaguered Democratic Party.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

This has nothing to do with that and everything to do with the Democrats own failures. Florida is home of AIPAC Democrats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, known for kneecapping Bernie in 2016 & for her other corruption. Democrats didn't offer the people in Florida anything unique compared to Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Those of us in the civilised world see the Dems as part of the problem

Their policies are awfully right wing. The Overton window in the US is just shoved so far right that people claim the Dems are left-wing, when they're most certainly not

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And, when the Dems were later sued for rigging their primaries, they argued in court that it was their right to do so.

We don't have democracy in the US. We have rich, soulless bastards play-acting as opposition.

[–] Amoxtli -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are not serious candidates. They're not going to make the country better, instead will introduce a whole set of other problems. These candidates gain power by votes as a form of protest. In a hypothetical, going to fascism from liberalism to communism does not improve the country in a weighted average, instead it will get worse. I have a hypothesis as to why democrats can't dominate Florida. That is, tax and spend policies does not work in Florida. It is a low tax state, probably for good reason, because much of the state is in a hurricane zone. It has a semi-retirement atmosphere. You would be paying high taxes on top of housing costs if you implemented a New York style taxes. Florida style taxation is tax things that are tourist related, to keep taxes low for the rest of the locals.