Currents
December 2018
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Countertrend
C
urrents has written about
society’s tendency to
extremes and we have called out
both political parties’ for partici-
pating in the extremes. One of
the more recent examples was
under President Obama when he
joined in with extremist pushing
anti-gay movements inside pubic
education. The result was a clas-
sic example of Newton’s third law
in human interaction. The oppo-
site and equal reaction was the
“bathroom law” issue in a few
states and “Religious Freedom”
legislation.
Another view of the trend can
be seen in hot spots around the
country post mid-term elections.
California, Michigan, Kansas, and
New England moved dramatically
toward the Democrats. Texas is
showing a hint of purple, but
Florida
moved
dramatically
toward the Republicans. While
several red states moved to cod-
ify stringent right to life dogma.
Kansas, in what will be called
a total rebuke of conservative
governing principals, turned
every open seat to Democrat.
Former
Senator/Governor
Brownback, now in charge of
Religious Freedom for the
Administration, left Kansas in
deep debt with failing institutions,
much as Governor Jindal left
Louisiana.
Hopefully, Red Florida will not
follow the same hollow path. Its
diverse income streams, as
opposed to being depend upon
an income tax, should help, but if
Tallahassee begins to slash the
budget the counties will be in dire
straits.
Florida, the place for the Red
and nearly dead, continues to
make a spectacle of itself. It went
Red or Purple while the others
were moving to Blue. It seems
Florida officials prefer to be
thought corrupt over incompetent.
Florida needs to change the way
it votes or change the close race
procedure to run-off from re-count
and gain more state control over
the county election supervisor
role. While incompetence seems
to be the root of the issues, the
GOP gained priceless ground in
the fight over voter suppression.
If however, Tallahassee looks
at the possible Hollywood boycott
of its neighbor Georgia, which
could cost the State an estimated
9.1 billion dollars, and seizes the
economic and socially progres-
sive opportunity to capture that
market, then Florida could pro-
vide revenue to fight sea level
rise and capture the affluent,
albeit godless, dollars of the lib-
eral migrant. Nah!
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