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In response to
"I'm on the edge of saying there was mass cheating. Disenfranchisement. -- nm"
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loosilu
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Since the majority of my Latino family voted for him I’ll offer their reasoning but it involves blame on liberals so don’t read if that may upset you
Posted by
Dawson (aka dawson)
Nov 6 '24, 07:36
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And I’m not saying I agree , I’m saying this is their reasoning
- the Democratic Party, in their mind, offers a) constant othering of Latinos and bunching us into a single monolith b) more Latinos (immigration, pro immigrant stances)
- the Republican Party wants assimilation and to stop more Latinos from coming in. Some are racist, but so what? Latinos are racist too. They dislike each other, to start. Most of my Mexican family really dislikes Cubans and Puerto Ricans and certainly Central Americans. Those groups feel the same about us
Latinos who are legally here ie those who can VOTE, want the latter not the former. They don’t want to be thought of as a monolith together with those “other” Latinos. And they perceive (correctly?) a shrinking pie in America and perceive (incorrectly?) that other immigrants are the biggest threat
To “assimilate and fit in” its better to do as the white man does, and deny access to others
It’s that simple. Literal hundreds if not thousands of convos with Texan family members saying “I just don’t want any more immigrants here” (and none of them are themselves immigrants they’re the grandkids of people who immigrated a century ago)
So this is all to say Latinos can be awful people too! And what the Democratic Party is selling them just isn’t appealing to them
Anyway that’s my anecdotal perspective and I believe I’ve voiced it here for two decades
Democrats should stop treating these racial groups as “special” or “in need of help” and stick to economic issues, again just my own personal perspective
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Nm -- nm*
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zunk takes things literally
Nov 6, 07:50
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