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In reply to the discussion: Boycott Florida orange juice [View all]calimary
(90,039 posts)But I have to ask - ARE THEY, indeed, really so "innocent"? If majorities of them voted people into office in the state legislature and the governor's mansion who turn around and pull this shit, and enact these laws, and take these stands, and involve themselves with organizations like ALEC, and keep assholes like rick scott employed and gave us jeb bush and katherine harris and allen west? If a majority of Floridians vote for asshole regressives like this? If they obviously approve of shit like this?
ARE THEY REALLY so "innocent"?
You've heard the saying "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." Well - there it is.
Please forgive me for waxing a little simplistic here (and I know some here won't), but it seems to me that if the "innocent" people in Florida don't want to have to deal with boycotts, then THEY need to stop legislation like Stand Your Ground, THEY need to stop voting for republi-CONS who only want to take their Social Security and Medicare away. Nobody's holding guns to their heads and forcing them to watch and swallow whole the propaganda of Pox Noise, or forcing them to listen to limbaugh & company. They choose this stuff. A majority of them chooses this, and votes for this, and donates to this, and supports this.
So - maybe they end up having to reap the whirlwind then.
As for those who don't support these things, they damn well better get themselves to precinct meetings and into lines on Election Day, and in the upcoming midterms get their asses out and vote rather than being apathetic or assuming that it doesn't make any difference or feel as though they don't want to bother. They need to rise up, get everybody they know to the polls, make sure everybody they know is educated about the candidates and issues, GET INVOLVED, AND TAKE THEIR STATE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have little patience with harm that's self-inflicted.
One more thing - California produces GREAT orange juice!