The Floridization of the World
Florida under Ron DeSantis is not just a symptom of modernity, but a model for how the Western world will look. It demonstrates a paradox: Florida is a state whose power is concentrated in an increasingly populated and economically autarkic manner, politically ruled under centralized domination. But it is not viewed as such. The fault of this has to do largely with how American politics looks in the modern day. There is a fictional divide between the Democratic and Republican party on cultural issues, such as abortion and gun rights, but no real divide on economic or foreign policy issues. Both parties heavily vote for corporate control, and are in turn funded by the same autarkic corporations and media moguls. Both parties heavily support and endorse Ukraine under Zelenski, and Israel’s anti-Hamas coalition and active crusade against the Palestinian state. But because the cultural issues are the main focus of many Americans, despite no real change occurring between Republican and ...