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Actually, Florida has an average take rate. Floridanas don't pay much attention to this nonsense. Like this huckster here who double dips the state to the tune of a half mil a year.
They certainly vote as though they do, though. Which is why they have so many of these hucksters.
Florida democrats don't vote. That's the problem.
That doesn't change what I said, though. Not voting is effectively a form of voting. Just choosing "none of the above" instead of choosing one of the options.
Unfortunately it's typically the least effective choice one can make.
Not voting isn't even choosing "none of the above", that would at least be informative as a protest. I could even imagine a system where it's a meaningful choice, for example if "none of the above" gets the majority of votes then the election is re-run and none of the previous candidates are eligible for the second attempt.
Not voting is choosing "I want what everyone who is actually voting picks."
I mean, yes, choosing a literal "none of the above" options would be more motive. Typically there's not that option, though. The point was that people who don't show up to vote, whether it's motivated by disinterest or desire to protest the system, are effectively the same thing.
Yeah we do. The problem is that 300k+ people moved here each year during the initial COVID epidemic. The lion's share of them were GOP symps running away from lockdowns & other mandates. Personally, in my county, Democrats are outnumbered 2 to 1 by the GOP as well as "Independents" now.
Hopefully this migration will have knock-on effects at the voting booths throughout the country.
My sympathies to whatever sane people are left in Florida, but yeah, on a national level this looks like the GOP effectively gerrymandering itself. If GOP voters move from purple states to deep red ones that's a win overall.
Hard to blame the voters when Republicans have free reign to implement voter suppression.
I mean, they had to get the power somehow, and that generally starts at the voting booth.
Hard to blame the current disenfranchised voters for not being able to vote out those already abusing their power. Blaming them shifts the attention away from those abusing their power.
Yes, it makes it hard, but it doesn't make it impossible. I agree there's plenty of reasons that people are less able to express themselves by voting... but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
And just pointing fingers does nothing to fix the situation. We already know the people in power are abusing it, unless you emphasize actually getting rid of them, nothing will change. Saying it's impossible to vote when it's not just makes it that much easier for potential voters to decide it's not worth the effort and just stay home.