A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis hasn’t overturned any school discipline during his five years as Florida’s Governor.
Yet he told supporters in Scott County, Iowa that conservative students may have to make the same sacrifices he has in his political career on behalf of “truth.”
“I think that freedom requires courage and it’s not always easy to stand up and speak your mind and to stand for what’s right. But in this day and age when the world is upside down, when we’re being told things that like men can get pregnant and this and that it’s really like looking through the world through a fun house mirror, things are distorted,” DeSantis said during a “fireside chat” event.
“Truth is suppressed when you stand up and do what’s right. That is not going to be cost free,” DeSantis acknowledged, before drawing a direct comparison between himself as a working politician and a student with less institutional leverage.
“And it can be a guy like me who is Governor running for President. But it can absolutely be somebody who is a student in school speaking truth that some people don’t want to hear.”
DeSantis acknowledged that students are “not going to necessarily be able to do that without any blowback, but just understand that doing what’s right ultimately is why we’re here.”
“You may have to take some slings and arrows, but show that you have the courage to want to be free citizens of a republic. And I think it’s likely not going to change any time soon. I think given the challenges we face, the more and more you step out and lead on things that matter, the more and more incoming you’re going to take. And if people aren’t willing to do that, then this country is not going to remain free.”
DeSantis closed the answer by saying “we all have a responsibility to step up and to get into that fire and to fight back for what’s right.”
18 comments
Dr. Franklin Waters
December 18, 2023 at 8:16 pm
“Conservatives” and “Truth” aren’t things that are compatible Ron.
Ocean Joe
December 18, 2023 at 8:19 pm
While I agree conservative youth must be free to speak their minds on college campuses, Desantis has gone to extremes to block left leaning voices, as demonstrated with the pro-Hamas stuff. If people want to demonstrate in favor of the latest bus bombing or hijacking, as distasteful as it is, the first amendment allows it.
He proves his lack of fitness to be president by tampering with Florida’s education system in an effort to create a Hanoi style system of re-education camps. You cannot convince young people to vote Republican when you insist on denying climate, restricting womens reproductive rights, revising history of slavery, and winking at nazis. On the other hand maybe the Ziegler style galavanting will recruit some of the more adventurous youth.
Bwj
December 18, 2023 at 8:21 pm
Very good advice Governor. So why are you suppressing different points of view? Why are you banning books, free speech and teaching alternative history?
PeterH
December 18, 2023 at 8:32 pm
Maybe DeSantis will move to Iowa!
Michael K
December 18, 2023 at 10:46 pm
Or Hungary.
Laura T
December 18, 2023 at 8:37 pm
We on the left should do exactly as he says. “We all have a responsibility to step up and to get into that fire and to fight back for what’s right.” Yes sir we do!
My Take
December 18, 2023 at 8:52 pm
Try to get the conservatives to shut up.
That is the more immediatè matter.
My Take
December 18, 2023 at 8:59 pm
Send studènt leaders to Hillsdaĺe College Hate Camps in the summer.
Let them be steeled for the later classroom fìghts.
Avoid armbands.
Sonja Fitch
December 19, 2023 at 5:32 am
Omg! Desantis is so damn racist and sexist ! Youth ,Desantis lies! Desantis could care less if You express your views !
Unless they are Desantis sick policies of hating one another!
My Take
December 19, 2023 at 7:10 am
Amercan Euro-white “truth”:
” WE built it !! “
Dont Say FLA
December 19, 2023 at 7:17 am
One person’s truth is another person’s tooth [REDACTED DUE TO DON’T SAY GAY]. People who believe in the tooth [REDACTED DUE TO DON’T SAY GAY] might want to keep that at home, to themselves.
Michael K
December 19, 2023 at 9:19 am
Poor little victims! When Ron says “freedom” he means “tell lies” spiced with victimhood and hate of someone else.
How about the search for truth and meaning?
Richard Russell
December 19, 2023 at 10:32 am
Thumbs up!
Tom
December 19, 2023 at 2:27 pm
Conservatives seem to me to be mostly older and more cynical. Young people, like the ones who go to college, tend to be more optimistic and believe they can change the world – I’m not sure why he thinks he can somehow change that. Seems like a fool’s errand and certainly not a bread and butter issue for voters. He’s basically betting on culture wars and losing.
My Take
December 19, 2023 at 2:34 pm
I suppose it’s less harmful than his previous message to them :
Don’t wear masks.
Ron Forrest Ron
December 19, 2023 at 3:24 pm
Hey kids! Your Auntie Rhonda recommends gathering in a parking lot outside Disney World for conservative “truth telling.” Cold snap tonight. Make sure and take some whyte sheets!
Moms For OnlyFans
December 19, 2023 at 7:40 pm
Or the overpass on I-10, Kanye Nazis are also Nazis.
Moms For OnlyFans
December 19, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Florida performed 14,544 abortions in the 90 days ended September 30, 2023. It’s their own statistic.
Read the room; people need abortions, 5,000 monthly in Florida.
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