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  Still not convinced Florida is becoming the new Russia?
context: This is nothing more than projection. They are falsely accusing the school of being a left-wing indoctrination facility to deflect from the fact they want to turn it into a right-wing indoctrination facility >
  
  Lol - it's 650 students.  Florida has a college & university school system with 1M students.  There are a lot more 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' indoctrination groups in the state university systems.  You want to see indoctrination go look at the greek life... >
  
  Are any of them a governor running for President who has total control of the state government?
  Just because he started with a small college doesn't mean it stays that way.
  And in fact it didn't start small because he installed Sasse at UF which has 50,000 students. >
  
  Fascist takeover of higher education. I feel so bad for the students and faculty >
  
  Everything with an eye to 2024.  What a complete douche. >
  
  His strategy can be summed up as... "People will stop being gay or thinking black lives matter if I just burn the right book." >
  
  It'll be interesting and comical to see how he attempts to pivot towards moderates after tap dancing for facists. >
  
  He doesn't have to.  Moderates will normalize his extremism in their own minds to avoid conflict with it.  It's literally why they exist.
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  The fallacy of middle ground is fallacy, but normalizing extremism avoids conflict. That is why moderates are moderate.  Not because they don't know right from wrong, but because they fear conflict with wrong enough to pretend that half wrong is somehow the best solution. A more accurate name for moderates would be "cowards". >
  
  I don't think it's that simple or black and white. It's also important to remember that in a democracy not every issue can be reduced to right versus wrong - and that's okay. Many voters are not ideologues. They vote for very narrowly defined interests and can be swayed based on who they think will deliver or secure those interests. A recent example would be Maryland. An undisputed "blue" state that has shown a history of ballot splitting and electing republican governors. Why? Because those governors were able to tap into those narrow issues that define moderate voters. >
  
  How the fuck is this guy doing this? >
  
  Because the Governor always control the state university board and this is a school of 650 students. >
  
  Not every governor took over schools with their people.
  This is something new. >
  
  
  Not every governor took over schools with their people.
  
  Of course they do - it's called the Board of Regents.  No one said boo that Newsome was going hard after the BoR for the Big10 move. 
  Republicans used it as an election slogan in Michigan
  Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arizona all now have Democrat governors and they will be putting their stamp on it.  
  My parent worked for colleges back in the 80s.  The governor did the same shit for their different causes. (They pushed kids from Bridgeport to stay in the community college system instead of branching out).  The only reason why people are saying stuff now is because DeSantis is making it a rallying cry instead of doing it quietly.
  Literally the question should be why are Florida tax dollars paying for a school of less than 700 kids with a graduation rate of 60%.  We have 1M+ kids in the state college & university system with 10% on free tuition ever year thanks to Bright Futures.