Anytime I bring up anything related to consumer protective policy, I am blasted with "well I can tell you are a socialist"
What?
Florida has a law to prevent hurricane price gouging, is that socialist?
The trauma from regional diaspora from Military Dictatorship has been weaponized by private interest. Anything that would stop them from squeezing you for every last dime they label socialist and you then hate.
Anything that stops them from warping and monopolizing the market and keeping them from total economic domination has been framed as Socialism.
A free market isn't free if the biggest actors have the ability to limit your choices in the marketplace. That is market capture.
You have been tricked into thinking anything that keeps market capture from happening is socialism.
We need to wake up. We need to organize and advocate for consumer protection so we can engage in the free market in a meaningful way and flourish as a state for the people, by the people.
Stop watching corporate media. It is just as skewed and twisted as state propaganda. Talk to your neighbors.
Challenge your elected representatives to do their job and represent your interests by protecting your choices in the free market. To advocate for you, their constituent. For the future of this state, outside of simply opening the door for the ultra wealthy.
If this anti "socialist" sentiment were truly the best way to govern, FL would be exploding with high paying jobs, fair market priced housing, fair market priced goods and services and the middle class would expand.
Instead we are saddled with insane insurance rates due to no protective policy, insane good and service prices because no protective policy, insane housing issues because no protective policy (1800$/mo for a 200sqft efficiency?)
The big picture is that this lack of protective policy lets market actors rob you of your freedom of choice and funnel you into their extractive overpriced funnel. The free market would allow for more competition which would drive prices down to what they are actually worth. People in this sub call FL a scam, and then whenever people suggest any change to stop the scam, are reviled as socialist monsters.
Thanks for reading ! Looking forward to talking about this as a community with rational, meaningful, factually based points.