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Venezuela talks strike political nerve in Florida

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as long as Florida keeps taking immigrants from Alabama they should be a pretty safe Republican voting state.
 

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From the OP link - of course it is striking a political nerve. This Venezuela idea should be politically radioactive, and in far more states than just Florida!

"The strong and immediate reactions provide a window into the political radioactivity of the issue in the nation’s third-most populous state, where both parties recognize that U.S. policy toward Venezuela and other socialist regimes in the region also reverberates across Florida politics."
 

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From the OP link - of course it is striking a political nerve. This Venezuela idea should be politically radioactive, and in far more states than just Florida!

"The strong and immediate reactions provide a window into the political radioactivity of the issue in the nation’s third-most populous state, where both parties recognize that U.S. policy toward Venezuela and other socialist regimes in the region also reverberates across Florida politics."
That's because most of the people are stupid.
 

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Socialists in the US accept/embrace the socialism in Venezuela.

That doesn't mean that we all need to.

C'mon people.

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Biden wasn’t going to win Florida anyway
 

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From the OP link - of course it is striking a political nerve. This Venezuela idea should be politically radioactive, and in far more states than just Florida!...
From the OP link;
“This is a community that’s accustomed to seeing things very black and white — and that makes it difficult for the Biden administration to try to explain the logic behind why Venezuela has all of a sudden become extraordinarily important,”

The quote describes the majority of Florida's conservative voters accurately. It strikes a nerve in those who view the world in sharply defined terms of black and white, either/or, moral and political absolutism. For most of these folks there is no in-between, no nuance, people are either all good or all bad.

It's the result of Christianity run amok;
"...This is due to a decline in the belief in moral absolutism..."
"...This mindset leads people to choose their own definition of right and wrong, and therefore, we see increases in and acceptance of many actions which were previously viewed as immoral..."
 

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Biden knows his detractors will never support any of his lives and his faithful supporters will make excuses for what he does. Biden is all about Biden no one else
 
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