Two liberal Democrats from Massachusetts moved to Florida
They have their eye on Ron DeSantis.
Two people about my age moved from a Boston suburb to Palm Beach County, Florida, the home county of Mar-a-Lago. They like the weather, but they still aren't adjusting to the politics. America isn't rid of Trump, they tell me, because DeSantis is the new Trump. Today's Guest Post is doing what Trump is doing, slamming DeSantis.
This report from Florida is a respite from what readers usually find here. I strive to be non-partisan and journalistic. I condemn Trump-style authoritarianism and flagrant rule-breaking, of course, but I spend at least equal energy warning Democrats about losing touch with middle America, especially people in rural areas. (That is why a dangerous Trump has done as well as he has.) In this Guest Post the husband lets loose with full-on contempt for DeSantis and the people who support him. He likens DeSantis to a python, and he warns that the python is headed north.
Once again, I depict the couple with silhouettes. The husband tells me they want to stay under the radar of neighbors, internet sleuths, and whatever Deep State spyware Trump's FBI managed to install. He admits to being a college classmate.
Guest Post: Commentary from Florida
Ron DeSantis, the second coming of Donald Trump, is on the loose and coming to a state near you soon. He is a man driven by vaulting ambition and the kind of unbound over-reaching ego that knows no humility. DeSantis wants to make over wherever you live into his vision for all of America - the dreamland that is Florida.
Ask yourself if that’s truly something you want – a state that’s marching steadily backward toward the 1950s. It is a place and era where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s description of Lake Wobegon, “All the people are white, all the men are in charge, all the women are subservient and dutiful, and all the children are taking up space in school while their education is being whitewashed." Sadly, Florida is lurching into deeper Red, where the repugnant reprehensible repulsive irresponsible reptilian morally-arrested Republican party is taking over. They are much like the plague of Burmese pythons that has invaded the state and is progressing northward. Pray that both forms of reptile get stopped at the Georgia and Alabama borders.
So here’s a commentary on Governor Ron in the form of lyrics to a song meant to be sung to the melody of the song that inspired it, “Here’s To The State of Mississippi.” It was written and performed by the brilliant but sadly deceased 60’s political protest singer Phil Ochs. I thank him for the inspiration and the one semi-plagiarized line plus the chorus.
If you want to get the melody in your head for the lyrics that follow, or just hear Ochs’s blistering takedown of Mississippi politics and mores in the mid-1960s, here’s a link:
Condolences. Florida is getting worse. Florida Senator Jay Collins "accidentally" filed a bill that would permit flying the Confederate Treason Flag(TM) on government property. It was filed accidentally, as they were working to finalize the language (into Bürgerbräukeller-Deutsch, presumably).
Personally, I'm rooting for the pythons.
Oh my, "repugnant reprehensible repulsive irresponsible reptilian morally-arrested Republican party is taking over." With Ds having a registration majority over Rs in Palm Beach County 2:1 overall and in every demographic except white male (0.7-1) https://tinyurl.com/yr3zzdzf your anonymous authors should fear little beyond reproof for the impropriety of how they express themselves.