Ugly politics
Help friends harm enemies: Republican ethics in a nutshell.
Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is backing a controversial proposal to strip $200m in education funding from Democratic counties that defied his executive order last year banning mask mandates in schools.
The Democratic counties did what they thought would help protect students and teachers from a dangerous virus, while the Republican ones took the “don’t tell us what to do” route, which is not always clever in matters of public health. In other words the Dem counties didn’t do anything actually wrong or malicious. It seems very piggy to punish the schools in those counties for that kind of best judgement decision.
I agree 100% with you on who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, but technically the Democratic counties were the ones saying don’t tell us what to do.
Oh come on. It’s convoluted but the core issue is DeSantis/Republicans saying don’t tell us to wear masks.
There’s a difference between “We’re not going to do what you tell us because it’s dangerous” and “We’re not going to do what you tell us because you’re not the boss of me”.
I’m so tired of ignorant, narcissistic bullies.