From the editorial board of the Miami Herald:
In Florida, conversations about race and sexuality are more dangerous than aging buildings in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse. School books need more scrutiny than rising property insurance premiums. Lies about widespread election fraud are more urgently addressed than real sky-high housing and renting costs. Tallahassee has become a city of made-up crises that the Florida Legislature was happy to fix in the legislative session that ended Monday.
There was no shortage of red meat Gov. Ron DeSantis could feed his supporters in his culture wars. Lawmakers ignored pleas from LGBTQ students and passed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill that bans conversations about sexuality and gender identity in K-3. They limited how teachers and employers can discuss race and sexism so that white people and men don’t feel “guilty.”
They made it easier for parents and activists to ban books from school libraries. Denied abortions to victims of rape, incest and human trafficking after 15 weeks of pregnancy and gave credence to Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being stolen with the creation of a new state election crimes investigation office.
In the Twilight Zone our state leaders inhabit, the real urgency is not in protecting the lives of 2 million people living in more than 912,000 condominium units that are at least 30 years old. More important is to fight books, “woke” teachers and corporate diversity trainers.
Read the full editorial.
Florida lawmakers were lost in the Twilight Zone and ignored our real-life challenges | Editorial https://t.co/22G2o55JRc
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 16, 2022