we tried to warn you but you bought the ticket because you were that scared of neoliberalism leading to communism through a process i can only describe as "somehow"
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Don't forget the bigotry, excused by their catholicism
The key feature of Cuban-Americans, as distinct from other Latinos, is that they're here in the first place because they were the sorts of people to flee communism -- i.e. right-wing bourgeoisie. We can make a lot of assumptions about their bigotry even without considering religion.
Religion and intolerance, name a more iconic duo
There is no hate like Christian love 🥰
I don't see him pushing for the best healthcare or free public education so I'm not sure of the comparisons
these are florida based cubanos mind you. the original seed population for that community was peeple who fled cuba early because it was a threat to them personally. yes, they're worried about the civil liberties lost, but a lot of them are also salty about the loss of their profit generating sugar plantations. they don't really engage with the positive aspects of fidel castro's dictatorship because for them, personally, those were negative aspects.
and none of this is to discount the issues of civil liberties experience in cuba, but a lot of later people who then arrive in florida for whom things weren't as bad on the front of wealth redistribution get bombarded by the seed population saying "see, communism and wealth redistribution always leads to problems" and that propaganda subsumes any discussion surrounding the push between centralized vs decentralized authority.
plus you got the zionist community right there pushing anticommunist propaganda and suddenly southern florida is a nightmare of a location with people pushing for centralized authority to protect them from radical leftwing ideologies like "letting people live their lives"
Fucking morons taking this long to get it?
Fidel's interminable speeches were boring, but at least were coherent.
The right keeps promising to punish Castro, as long as that's true, old Miami Cubans will keep voting for them. They'll whine about whatever the fuck recent news tells them to, but at the end of the day, it's no different than Susan Collins being concerned.
There isn't even a Castro in power anymore. The closest thing is Fidel Castro's grand daughter who doesn't have power, but has been sucessfully agitating for lgbt+ rights.
If only we could have an all-powerful, wise and virtuous Platonic philosopher-king to righteously wield absolute power, without the likelihood of them turning bad, or being succeeded by a bad emperor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way, hence democracy, separation of powers and numerous checks and balances that make things wastefully inefficient, because the alternative is worse.
Florida people, la crème de la crème...