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The High Electoral Cost of Thinking too Much

Florida is the flattest State in the USA.
I am speaking of geographical elevations, here,
not of intelligence, although I am not certain of that.
After all, Senator Marco Rubio is from Florida.

The lowest point in Florida is the sea.
I am still speaking of geography, although. . . .
The highest point in Florida is 345 feet above sea level,
which is rather like standing a football field on end,
goal posts, and end zones, and all.
Most of Florida is more interested in football than global warming.

My suspicion is that deep in his heart--about a foot down--
Mr. Rubio know that the sea is already rising,
and that the ice at the other ends of the world is melting,
and that when it melts it will kind of slip up over Florida.
Senator Rubio probably knows that, but he knows something else, too.
He knows that the next important election is only two years away.
Ice, and melted ice, moves much slower.

Florida has more to lose than almost anybody except the people
who live on little flat islands in the sea,
and Florida is a peninsula.  In some languages,
peninsulas are called "half islands".
In some places, people who get elected to the Senate
are called. . . .

The point is that Senator Rubio might, or might not,
believe in global warming, but he is most skeptical about
whether human activity has anything to do with it,
so why spend the money?  Why wonder whether to vote Democratic,
and take good money that could be used for pumping sand in
from out there somewhere, and using it to hassle coal mining?
Why not just vote Republican, save all that money,
and buy a canoe?
After all, a beach is a beach, whether in Miami, or up by Georgia!

Let me say it plainly:  I am not being entirely fair to Senator Rubio,
except for the plain fact that he is not particularly interested in what we know about things.
What we know about things is called, "science",
and when science makes it difficult to get elected,
something has to give:  it might as well be the beach.

If an idiot were in charge of the Republican Party,
he would advise that they refuse to believe in what we know to be true;
in what the scientists tell us.  He would quietly tell candidates,
who share a mind with the electorate, that people would rather pursue simple-minded profit
and cost-savings than think about how they think.
Anyway, Daddy voted Republican, didn't he,
or was he a Dixiecrat, back then, in the day?
That's what's wrong with this country!  People think!

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