@libertybele @roamer_1
I'm asking a serious and necessary question: On what conservative/constitutional principle is DeSantis standing his ground in his fight against Disney? I'm not asking what he's fighting, or why.
Where do these conservative principles fit with the actions taken by DeSantis and his administration?
You're leading the question a bit,
@Right_in_Virginia ... by categorical selection...
So I will start here:
Foremost he rose to protect the principles of the Christian Right, as found in the Greater Judeo-Christian Ethic. Those precepts are located in any Bible you might care to look at, but primarily found in Torah and the words of Christ. It is our moral root, and out sense of right and wrong.
If you cannot understand that a trusted corporation serving children, found to be grooming children, sexualizing them, is wrong beyond the pale, then we can stop right here, because you will understand nothing further.
FINALLY social conservatives have a champion, who rose sword in hand, to defend the very basic concept of something being damnwell wrong, that needs to be put down.
That's the cause.
And in the fix, he chose to put actual teeth in the Reedy Creek agreement, for the first time in a long time. He replaced the Reedy Creek Board with people who would protect the State's interest, creating leverage against an otherwise self governing corporation, who has been operating it's own little fiefdom for decades, largely free of the authority of the sovereign state of Florida.
Personally, I think he should go WAY further - Now that the court has decided that corporations are individuals, then the corporation becomes subject to the laws against pedophilia and grooming proper, and the law should be applied to arrest the corporation as a singular entity and convict it as a singular entity, and send it to jail... and when it gets out, make sure it registers as a sexual predator and pedophile.
Just desserts.
Now, on to your question:
Conservative principle: Individual Freedom
Individual, God-given liberties should be preserved against government intrusion. The purpose of government is to secure the unalienable rights to life, liberty, conscience, free speech, the free exercise of religion, and the ability to pursue happiness, own property, build wealth and self-defense.
Individual freedom is limited purposefully by the sovereign state. That's what laws are for. Incidental to this issue, with the exception of the fact that the laws of the State are no longer selectively withheld from Disney, and that Disney is being made subject to them.
Conservative principle: The Rule of Law
Ours is "a government of laws and not of men," and the rule of law is the foundation. Justice must be administered equally and impartially to all. All of government must adhere to the Constitution of the United States.
In fact DeSantis is fixing this by his actions. None of the other resorts in Florida have such a buddy deal as is found in Reedy Creek. There is no reason whatsoever why Disney should not have to function under the very same regulations as every other corporation, and specifically, resort, as found throughout the state. They don't have such autonomy. This is leveling the playing field. This is creating 'equality and impartiality' (at least in the eyes of those other corporations, who suffer the regulations the state imposes), removing a decades-old good ol boy agreement.
Note that I am not against such agreements - But they are not sacrosanct or perpetual, or the state has ignored its duty to the People. And Disney has long benefited by it... More than satisfying any agreement there was.
Conservative principle: Free Markets
Competition should be encouraged, and government intervention and regulation should be limited.
Again, no injury, and actually provided for in the 'equality and impartiality' mentioned above, if Reedy Creek is dissolved.
... All that remembering of course, the first cause... Defending a woke, grooming corporation's autonomy against the legitimate sovereignty of the state is unconscionable. It is only proper that the state remove its favor and bring its authority to bear.
