The damage DeSantis will do as he runs for president by ginning up his fact his wilfully fact-free base will be incalculable, and most of that damage will be done to children.
DeSantis doesn't have any ideas that will actually help people; see skyrocketing rents, insurance costs, and 1.1 million uninsured Floridians as examples of that; no, he is all grievance and culture wars, and many of those battles are being fought in Florida schools where children aren't just collateral damage they are the main victims.
The attacks on LGBTQ children and the whitewashing of history are well documented, but we also have the mass banning of books, the canceling of plays, the dismantling of classroom libraries, and the attacks on the teaching profession, which will only ensure fewer people become teachers and now the state has all but ended the Youth Risk Behavioral Study, which gave the district important information on the well-being of the states children. That last one may save actual lives but is now just another casualty in the governor-made culture war.
What do all of these things have in common? Children are being hurt, children are being hurt, and children are being hurt.
And again, for what? So a petty and selfish man can advance himself is what.
Adults will be fine. Teachers will get other jobs, and some people may move; personally, I can vent by blogging, but children, what besides suffering are they able to do? Victims of a war they didn't start and definitely don't deserve.
Ugh...
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