# New Florida Senate bill would eliminate state Democratic Party

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512 "2023-02-28T22:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/41 "2023-03-02T19:52:08Z")

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Fair enough, sounds like you are saying that it’s less like tying knots, and more like squishing play-doh.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/42 "2023-03-02T19:52:09Z")

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While at the same time the new Florida education bill is explicitly requiring schools & colleges to airbrush certain people out of all taught history.

The lying hypocrisy is strong in those folks.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/43 "2023-03-02T19:53:55Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> more like squishing play-doh

A good description of their brains yes.

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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/44 "2023-03-03T07:30:11Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> I mean, it’s total bullshit. History books, records, and so on will still mention what they did. It’s just the statues showing them as heroes that are being removed.

The above part of your post (that I snipped) reminds me of a line I heard somewhere, but I can’t remember where:

Germany doesn’t have any statues of Hitler, but everyone knows who he is.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/45 "2023-03-03T08:15:28Z")

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> [@Superdude](#):
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> Germany doesn’t have any statues of Hitler, but everyone knows who he is.

The version I heard was “I took my kids to Auschwitz so I could teach them what happened there, but it didn’t work because they didn’t have any statues of Hitler riding a horse”.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-florida-senate-bill-would-eliminate-state-democratic-party/980512/46 "2023-03-03T12:46:05Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> they didn’t have any statues of Hitler riding a horse

Well of course not, [everyone knows he was more into donkeys](https://youtu.be/PBsHxZ2n0Ig?t=53)…

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