Florida Democrats ended their annual summer fundraising dinner with a drag show, a move designed to highlight what the party said is intolerance by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans.

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    Surely this will engage all of FL’s no party affiliation voters to vote out the GOP… 🙄

    I sware, the FL DNC is just the FL GOP’s JV team.

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      Pretty much no one except creepy weirdos gives a FUCK if you dance around in a dress. Independents, if they care about this at all, are generally against Ronald Disney Princess’ campaign of hate

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        It’s a bad look, as stupid as it is this is a losing issue in Florida. But yeah, let’s get a political jab for the national party and lose Florida state positions by 20 points again

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          Sorry fam but post covid that’s gonna happen pretty much no matter what. If “it’s okay to do drag” is a losing position your state is already lost. Best to move the culture forward at large and loudly proclaim that people who are different from the norm are still valid and have a place.

          Valuing short term optics over acknowledging and celebrating identity is in the long run a losing position. Look at the captured black and queer votes. Those are massive bases for Democrats and aren’t going away for ages, but embracing civil rights lost Dems the South and you but 60 years ago were making this exact same argument. But look at the culture now. Sure, there’s a reaction under way but the vast, vast majority of people are against segregation, are fine with miscegenation and don’t give a fuck about who you fuck. That’s because people took unpopular positions and made them popular.

          I’d rather have safe, out queers than a DINO senator.

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            I don’t think one time publicity stunts to Democratic fundraisers are a more effective way to fight anti LGBT sentiment than winning elections and passing legislation

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        Pretty much no one except creepy weirdos gives a FUCK of you dance around in a dress.

        Yep, that’s my point. Not much news came out of that DNC meeting; but we did hear about this.