Speaking for us lefties in Florida, we are fighting like hell to overcome the fascist right-wingers--and we've got a lot of 'em here.

@mischl Responding after the election... that's for sure. Florida is blood red now. I doubt the DNC is going to waste much money there anymore. It seems to be over, sorry. I would move to a different state if I lived there. Too bad, you have decent climate too, though pretty foul weather.

@AlbertSchepis I'm in a small clan of writers, artists, and politically savant people that makes it, for me, bearable. But the main reason I'm here is the weather.

Yes, we have so many people with inadequate critical thinking skills that "big lies" render them incapable of ferreting the truth out of the noise.

@mischl I wish that some kind of critical thinking test or political literacy test could be used for voting eligibility, but that has been tried in the past, somewhat, in the American southern states after Reconstruction ended, following the Civil War, and all it led to was voter suppression of black folks. So there is no fair and honest way to make that required for voting, because it would always be abused by partisan groups whenever they gained political supremacy, for them to hold onto power at all costs.

@TomMcGiverin I see what you're saying Tom, but I think going to school is supposed to prepare people to think, see truths and understand how things (like civilized society, government) works. That's really the test. It's twelve years of tests from every angle in preparation for doing things like voting for public servants to run things properly. It's not supposed to be: just vote for the guy who talks the toughest and scares the shit out of people, either because he's so mean or stupid or both. Right? I mean, if they don't get it by then, there's no magic test that's going to make them vote right on occasion.

@AlbertSchepis Nowadays, K-12 schools do a terrible job of preparing citizens to become smart voters, and the corporate media doesn't help any either on that count. I do actually think both of those institutions are that way by design. The ruling class does not want intelligent voters who are well informed and can think critically, because they would be a threat to the status quo system. They want them just smart enough to run the machines and do the jobs the system ends up giving them, nothing beyond those things..

@Druvius
Hell no.

@Druvius What are you, one of those schoolyard bullies who thinks the biggest bully knows how to run things? Yeah right into the ground, then it's Lord of the Flies time.

@AlbertSchepis
How is he being a bully???

@CourtJester He called me "a special kind of stupid" for one.

@AlbertSchepis and???