If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way, people who merely attend a protest that results in property damage will be prosecuted for felonies. Yelling at someone in a restaurant as part of such a protest will be a criminal offense. And a driver who kills demonstrators with his car will not be liable for their deaths, as long as he is “fleeing for safety from a mob.”
These are just a few of the policies proposed by DeSantis in a package meant to chill dissent and punish those in the streets demanding an end to racist police violence. Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature have promised to file the bill in 2021. By introducing it now, DeSantis clearly hopes to rile up Trump’s base in Florida, one of the most crucial swing states, with fears of black-clad cabals rampaging through their gated communities. But the specifics of the proposal are worth close consideration, because it represents a rising consensus among conservative leaders under Donald […]
Another group of scary crazy people out to disrupt our once great Social Democracy. I am actually afraid to tell people that I believe in socialism as being the best way for a real democracy to work as against the neo-liberal fascists.
It hasn’t taken long at all for the Republican corruption, led by trump, to deconstruct the United States. I have a “Biden” sign in my yard (I always have a sign at elections)…..for the first time I’m nervous about having it there. I hate to say it, but I’m rather hoping Trump has a long vacation in the form of recovering from the Corona virus, long enough to miss the election altogether. It just might be the only good thing he’s ever done in his life.