GAWD DAMN -This Florida shit is going too far -

[W_HAMILTON]

61. I have helped with GOTV efforts in Florida in the past...

...and it just seemed wasted.

I don't think it's a problem that you can just throw money at to fix. You need serious reform, starting from the ground-up there. And investing national time and effort to do that seems counterproductive given that you resources are finite and could better be used on more Democratic friendly purple states (e.g., Georgia and Arizona) or even red states where such time and effort could actually pay off in the near term (e.g., North Carolina).

Florida just seems like a lost cause, in large part thanks to the voters -- maybe non-voters is more apt at this point... -- on the left. It's just not a good mix there right now. The sorts of issues that drive out a small -- but necessary -- segment of potential voters on the left there are the same issues that put off a majority of Florida voters, and it seems like young voters there don't understand this dynamic and just throw their hands up in disgust rather than work through it and realize the root word of what they call themselves (progressives) is PROGRESS.

I haven't seen this near hopeless mix of factors in any other presumed "gettable" state and until it is somehow resolved, I think it is a waste pouring resources into the state when those resources at the present time could better be spent on other states that are closer to being Democratic leaning or even future Democratic stalwarts than Florida is right now.

Unfortunately for a segment of young voters, sometimes it does take a serious wakeup call for them to abandon their idealism and realize that achieving the achievable is sometimes the best that can be done, e.g., look at how many thumbed their nose at Hillary in 2016 but then were jolted into action by the deplorableness of Trump -- enough to have swung the election in 2016, that's for sure.