Posted on 07/09/2021 4:49:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thanks to the blessings of decentralization, life can vary greatly in America depending on where you sit. Those differences are growing into a chasm of philosophical and practical contrasts between two basic models for the American future. Call them the California way and the Florida way.
On many critical questions facing our culture, our economy and our society, California and Florida offer radically different answers.
Should lots of new housing be built in the interest of affordability? California says no, Florida says yes. Should homeless people be allowed to turn public spaces into tent cities? California says yes, Florida says no. Should public elementary schools teach critical race theory? California says yes, Florida says no. Should gas be $4 a gallon? California says yes, Florida says no. Should biological males be allowed to dominate girls’ sports? Florida says no. California not only says yes, but it is trolling Florida by forbidding its employees to take state-funded trips to Florida, as well as 16 other states.
California fancies itself imposing its cultural values on other states and tackling global warming independently; Florida has a more modest view of what a state government does. People are voting on all of this with their U-Hauls. California’s population in 2020 shrank for the first time ever, by 180,000 people, whereas Florida had the second-highest increase in population, after Texas.
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It is clear which philosophy is the most productive and free.
Which is why those RCV provisions are in HR1.
The choice is obvious to Freepers. Yet does a majority of Americans yearn to be free and productive? Our nation and its citizens are on the now accelerating path of dependence upon and fear of government.
Thank God for this Governor; he only won by 32,000 votes but he has made a real difference and I’ll be supporting him financially and with my field work for the nomination. Reminds me of Reagan when he was governor of Calif; only DeSantis is 43 years old.
Friends just left lake Tahoe for Florida.
The only reason they gave was that they wanted to live in a free state.
Why I still think 2024 will be Newsom vs DeSantis.
I don’t see them being even remotely similar.
I wouldn’t live in California even if I made as much as Reggie Bush did before he took a pay cut joining the NFL. LOL
BTTT!
I refuse to consider Florida and California as representative of all 50 states.
Anyway, it’s not simply Florida and California. It’s the big cities within those states that get the attention.
That would really be interesting.
Florida actually is, because people from all over the country move there. You got the mix of old people, hispanics, blacks, pretty much it’s got every single kind of constituency you can think of. The northern part is still “Deep South”.
This is a winning message if the GOP-e has the guts.
“San Francisco is now a crime infested open sewer....do you want your city to be the same?”
Who said either state is representative of “all 50 states?”
“Who said either state is representative of “all 50 states?””
The article’s title is “California and Florida battle for the soul of a nation”.
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