Thinking about this a couple of hours after posting it, I find myself wondering if I've been too dismissive of the claims about Florida becoming harshly anti-gay. Anyone who has ever spent time on the beach in Florida knows that the whole state is a grim and sexless theocratic hellhole, a puritanical reversion to the 16th century. Miami is, we often hear, the new Riyadh. Indeed, I'm told that there are places in Key West where you can often hear gay men moaning – presumably because they are in pain. From the repression.
Thank you for this. I used to work in D party organizing, went to grad school for public policy, and went into these academic type institutions that just fail to do anything meaningful (generally) and in the last five years.. especially the last year.
Have turned into hate manufacturing institutions… defying the very reasons and hopes I had by taking that professional path.
The only thing I hope for is that a lot of other people like you feel the same way. The wave of Democratic congressional retirements this year seems to indicate that people are noticing. But I don't see the next part -- the recovery, the path back. There was a generation of Democratic Party policymakers I admired, like Jerry Brown and Bruce Babbitt. The "hate manufacturing institutions" are very strange, and can't be sustainable.
Thinking about this a couple of hours after posting it, I find myself wondering if I've been too dismissive of the claims about Florida becoming harshly anti-gay. Anyone who has ever spent time on the beach in Florida knows that the whole state is a grim and sexless theocratic hellhole, a puritanical reversion to the 16th century. Miami is, we often hear, the new Riyadh. Indeed, I'm told that there are places in Key West where you can often hear gay men moaning – presumably because they are in pain. From the repression.
Thank you for this. I used to work in D party organizing, went to grad school for public policy, and went into these academic type institutions that just fail to do anything meaningful (generally) and in the last five years.. especially the last year.
Have turned into hate manufacturing institutions… defying the very reasons and hopes I had by taking that professional path.
The only thing I hope for is that a lot of other people like you feel the same way. The wave of Democratic congressional retirements this year seems to indicate that people are noticing. But I don't see the next part -- the recovery, the path back. There was a generation of Democratic Party policymakers I admired, like Jerry Brown and Bruce Babbitt. The "hate manufacturing institutions" are very strange, and can't be sustainable.