And so one person is going to decide who gets elected from which legislative district. In essence, the legislators who get elected in the next election will be beholden to DeSantis. And who knows how many Democrats could possibly get elected.

When legislative districts become so gerrymandered that there is no longer political completion and the competition of ideas, it is the citizens of the state who lose out. Elections where people can listen to competing ideas and the politicians have to pay attention to all of the people in their district leads to better decision-making and decisions with positive outcomes for the vast majority of the state’s citizens. Politicians actually have to compromise in the development of policies and programs for the benefit of all.

And without that competitiveness, the best interest of specific segments of the state’s population can lose out and ignored. I think that is what is happening in Milwaukee. In order to hold power, the Republicans use race and stereotypes of people living in Milwaukee to create their political power and then as rationales why nothing gets done that will benefit the African American and Latino people who live there. It’s like the policy is to isolate and contain certain populations even though this will hurt the long-term prospects of the state and its citizens. That is what non-competitive political races do for the state.

And then speaking of DeSantis, it appears that he and the Florida legislature are going to cancel out Disney World’s self-governing status that allows them to do their own zoning and other daily governmental tasks. When Disney came out against the “Don’t Say Gay’ bill which prevented public school teachers from mentioning sexual orientation or gender identity in K-3 grades, DeSantis didn’t like the fact that Disney was sticking up for some of its employees and apparently didn’t like the freedom of expression that companies enjoy under the U.S. Constitution. And so they decided to retaliate against Disney by withdrawing their self-governing status.

One Florida legislator was quoted as saying that Disney was trying to import California culture and values to Florida. I couldn’t believe what I was reading.

And so apparently the Freedom of Speech only applies to Ron DeSantis and his friends and those that speak out against DeSantis’ policies are retaliated against using the power of the state. This is a form of dictatorship, in my view, the use of state power to selectively enforce the freedom of speech or to punish those who dare to use that freedom. It’s very chilling.

And then there is the ruling of the Federal Judge from Florida, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, in broadly knocking down the Biden Administration’s mask mandate for public transportation. It appears that her ruling impacts the entire country. There was this explanation of her ruling as reported by CNN.com.

""Wearing a mask cleans nothing," she wrote. "At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither 'sanitizes' the person wearing the mask nor 'sanitizes' the conveyance."

She wrote that the mandate fell outside of the law because "the CDC required mask wearing as a measure to keep something clean — explaining that it limits the spread of COVID-19 through prevention, but never contending that it actively destroys or removes it."

Apparently Mizelle was judged to be not qualified by the American Bar Association. At 33-years-old when approved to be a federal judge, Mizelle had little actual trial experience and apparently had done little thinking about the implications of her rulings.

As the common saying goes, it was a pre-determined legal ruling looking for a rational reason to justify it. It is apparent that Mizelle did not think things through very clearly or apply it to all of society and every possible instance. She was so hell-bent on declaring this policy unconstitutional that she didn’t care or didn’t understand all that it affected.

Using the same reasoning, food workers and doctors and nurses and many other food and health personnel no longer have to wear sanitary gloves because they don't sanitize anything. They just keep something from being spread.

I will try to be nice, but this judge is missing a few marbles and to think that as she is just 33-years-old, she could be making these kinds of policy decisions for the next 50-60 years. Oh, did I say policy decisions? That wouldn’t be right because it is the legislature that is supposed to pass policies.

The Republicans complained about judicial activism for years. They’ve been pretty quiet about it as they practice judicial activism all the time.

As the Republicans’ constituency grows smaller — one built on white supremacy — they are changing the rules and government to allow them to be a white minority government immune to the cries of people of color and other underrepresented people. They will kill democracy because they no longer have any use for it. And that is a scary proposition.