It absolutely does take some mental gymnastics. I can't go to my mailbox or the grocery store without hearing about what "great thing" DeSantis did, though. This is life down here.
How to handle it? I don't know. I clearly haven't made any inroads with people I've met in the south. A lot of them still believe in "the war or northern aggression" so I guess I'd be wary of "proving" that by intervening.
Here's one of my most unpopular opinions that I've settled on over the last few years. There's probably no way to keep the United States united.
@BE @mcopelov
Yah, that is the one topic that nobody is allowed to voice in strategy discussions or when sketching alternate futures.
I see very little chance that the union survives the stresses of these shifts once climate change, demographic shift, and Industry 4.0 really begin to bite.
I would love to help FL, for one, because climate change is going to fuck them up, and they have very little time left to prepare for what is coming, but they REALLY don't want to hear.
The people of FL don't want to hear *and* people are still moving here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-move-to-florida-regret-fastest-growing-state-2022-12
Florida has plenty of issues, but there's apparently still plenty of people who want to be here and be a part of it.
