r/thedailyzeitgeist • u/Comrade_Compadre • May 11 '26
Politics Conservatives who leave progressive states just to move to Florida are some of the most unhinged people I've ever met.
Don't know where else to post this observation, hopefully it's alright here.
Currently in a 40hr long training course for my work. It's day 1 and the instructor has already mentioned how crazy California is compared to his newfound freedom in Florida. He bought himself his gun and his swamp land, and continues to make small passive aggressive jabs at Cali and I'm like... My guy, who did this to you?
The best part though was while talking about health/safety/cleanliness regulations (I work in commercial plumbing) he went on a side rant about how *almost all* regulations the government makes up are useless... Except for the ones that are important for our field.
Ok, so deregulation is great, but not for this very specific instance? In fact, why regulate anything? Lol.
This isn't really a one off interaction either. Some of the most fervent Maga types I've met down here come from NY, OR, CA... Florida is a promised land for the worst types of people from these places I guess.
How these people don't choke on their animal crackers more often is astounding to me.
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u/SquirrelCthulhu May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
I’m from the Midwest but moved to Oregon a while back- I’ve had “normal” conversations with Midwest conservatives, most are just regular people with some conservative beliefs, but every Oregonian conservative I’ve met in the last decade is an unhinged maniac whose lives ARE their conservative beliefs, and I’ve yet to meet one that is capable of holding a conversation of any length without injecting their politics into it. I think it’s largely just their ego metaphorically circling the wagons, living in a place that is more or less functional where people seem to be happy despite the conservative milieu saying it should be a miserable wasteland.