Showing DeSantis for What He Is, Part I

Sadly, Florida is infected with and inflicted by a demagogic ideologue with little conscience, but with dictatorial tendencies: Rom DeSantis . He is politically shrewd but lacking in any real moral base. We must expose this very flawed man for what he is, an neutralize his toxicity, or he will damage both our state and our nation. Being an ivy league law school graduate,

it is obvious that DeSantis has intellectual ability. But there is a huge difference between having intellectual ability and behaving intelligently. Instead of choosing to use reason. Logic, facts, and moral purpose to try to serve his state in the most beneficial way, he has chosen to use fear, ethnocentrism, cultural bias, and xenophobia to stir up toxic brew of the basest of instincts in vulnerable constituents in the bowels of vulnerable constituents.

DeSantis would rather spend his time in office focusing on creating and magnifying culture wars, instead of attending to matters that would increase the quality of life and equal opportunity for all Floridians. Such activities keep his name in the news, particularly on Fox and other right wing propaganda sites. That way, his base may fail to notice that the quality of government and life in Florida is getting worse, not better.

As a career educator, I am particularly offended and angered by his actions in the educational sector. Years of starvation of public educational funding by Republican governors have left the state’s educational system near the bottom of all states in fiscal support of education, in spite of the wealth in the state. Then, DeSantis enacts a pittance of an increase in educational funding and acts like he has done a great thing for teacher pay. What a hypocrite!