Meet a “keep government out of my Medicare” and “give me a bigger Social Security check” set. The Villages. It is a weird place. It’s also the fastest growing small town in America.
The Villages is the largest gated over-55 community in the world. It holds more than 100,000 residents in an area bigger than Manhattan.
Business is good at the STD clinic, and there are reports of a black market in Viagra. Have to wonder if it’s not also ground zero for Medicare paid penis pumps. And it’s unusual for the cops not to turn a blind eye to public sex, and probably wish they’d done so in this case considering the publicity this has generated.
And everyone gets around via golf cart. … There were golf-cart tracks going everywhere. There are golf-cart tunnels and even a golf-cart bridge to cross the major highways. Why golf carts? Because nobody there really needs a car. Everything they could ever want is inside the gates.
Some of the golf carts “cost upwards of $25,000 and were souped up to look like Hummers, Mercedes sedans, and hot rods,” Andrew D. Blechman noted in his book Leisureville: Adventures in America’s Retirement Utopias.
No cookie baking Grannies here. So many better things to do; so little time.
But GOTV isn’t needed here. No, sirree.
Residents of The Villages have a high 80% turnout rate in elections. Republicans outnumber Democrats two-to-one.
And meet their GOP-Tea Party US House Representative: Rich Nugent. (Does he preach the family values and fidelity rot to his constituents? Maybe with a wink and a nod? Ha ha. As if any Republican gives a crap about his/her hypocrisy.)
I’d rather be dead than live in one of these places.
