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Jim Carmichael's avatar

Poor Florida. De Santis has no excuse. He is venal, corrupt, and cynical—a very small man. Note that it is the marketplace that brings the furies of climate change to roost. Money is the only thing that catches some people’s attention, especially property value. Thank you for calming our nerves about the election analysis.

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Linda Weide's avatar

When friends and I were on our way to a pro-abortion rally after the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade, two Black men on the train asked where we were going. I would say they were in their mid-late 30s. I had turned my poster messages in towards each other, but a friend had not, and seeing it, the men asked her about it. One told us he had not voted in almost 15 years. The other one said he had never voted. Then, once they understood where we were going, one said he was not for abortion because his mother had not wanted him and she might have aborted him. It reminded me that a lot of Conservative Blacks do not believe in abortion, seeing it as diminishing their numbers. So, abortion might not be the issue to get Black voters out. Anyway, women's health care in this country is shot because of the anti abortion laws and the prevalence of Catholic Health Services in this country, even in Blue States. All of the Catholic Universities health services will not cover birth control or abortion. When I was a student, working in a cool revival movie theater, one of my co-workers who was also in college got pregnant from a Roadie of a Band that came into our town. She was attending a Catholic university and could not get any help, and did not make enough to afford it on her own. It was abstinence, abstinence, abstinence all the way with her health care. That is the health care that many women are left with and those who want children are no longer able to get good prenatal care in any state where doctors are worried about getting in legal trouble for what used to be routine good care. Our nation is not training enough OB-GYNs anymore because many cannot get their rotations in their training for OB-GYN care that includes abortion. We already have a shortage of doctors. The whole things is just ignorant and cruel. Republican policies are typically cruel of women and children so that is no surprise.---As for Florida, a state I talked my nephew out of attending for grad school, and where I did not want my daughter to vacation with her apolitical friend who was pulling her to vacation there because she likes a hotel in Palm Beach a lot. I was assured that the owners were Democrats, at the same time, down the street the Sheriff has to deal with Nazis causing trouble. Yeech! We know whom they voted for governor. The wetland destruction of Florida is supported by the ignorant, vicious and evil members of the Supreme Court, since they claim to understand where a wetland begins and ends. Not their job to determine, but they did this anyway. I have suggested in a letter to the Biden Administration that FEMA not give any insurance payout to anyone unless they use it to 1) not rebuild in the same place, particularly not a wetland, flood or fire zone 2) they must rebuild using government approved zero carbon plans. In fact, they should have to use solar energy as well as other sources of non carbon energy. It would be a great if the first part of this letter were sent to some widely read Florida papers. I imagine that many would just put their heads in the sand. However, it might jolt some to wake up and think. After all, that is what WOKE is, is being awake and aware. We know that DeSatan likes his folks to be asleep.

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