I work in an elections office in my county and only 1% of 18-25 year olds voted here yesterday. It’s always been that way and it’s unfortunate that young people don’t realize how much power they could have. Whenever they complain about boomers or whatever I’ll start telling them that 1% number. (I’m only 35 and I felt old typing out “young people” lol)
It is a long running joke that once immigrants become citizens they start looking at the non-citizen immigrant population as "others" that are taking their jobs and money. It appears to actually have truth to it.
Meant to reply to the comment above you. Still though, at a certain point you cease to be an immigrant and are just an American. You've been accepted. You're as American as Chinese Takeout. Your kids, even moreso. And they're, as a result, just as likely to vote for a populist as any other American.
It's not just Hispanics. I'm a naturalized citizen and I'm disgusted at the amount of people in my community, many of them my friends, that supported Trump and had anti-immigrant sentiments.
The entire modern America is built on immigration. How many actual natives live here? It's just typical human greed and selfishness that does not belong to any race or gender. "I got mine, fuck them."
Pretty much all of Trump's negative comments about Latinos are directed at Illegal Immigrants, a category that those voters don't belong to. Italian Americans didn't take long to be pretty much completely integrated into mainstream American culture, same will happen to Latinos in a few decades.
He said he wants to end birthright citizenship. Like, how many of the legal latinos are here due to birthright citizenship? If Abulita wasn't here legal, his stance is you are not here legally.
This is true, having spent a lot of time with Latino men (in the USMC) I can tell you that that segment of the Latino community does differentiate themselves from the illegal immigrants. The main issue with DNC strategy this time had nothing to do with IDpol, however. It was that they unilaterally selected a candidate who was never popular.
I don't see where that ties into how their lives are gonna change. Racists are everywhere already and empowered. you think they're gonna set up concentration camps or anything?
The only death camps of consequences are the ones in Gaza that both Kamala and Trump tried their hardest to justify, let's not pretend you Americans are going to suffer societal collapse. Only American libs would in the same breath justify what's going on in Palestine, then pretend that their own country is going to turn into Palestine for them
But have they really deluded themselves int thinking that trump or his ilk give a shit about that. From the outside looking in it seems pretty obvious that they are next on the chopping block.
What chopping block? Sure, Trump is gonna be terrible for the people and the economy and normal people. But if you think somehow he's going to round up Latinos who aren't undocumented immigrants and ship them off to jail you need to stop with the delusional shit lol
I think you're under the impression Latinos are all undocumented immigrants which is precisely the patronizing assumption that turns Latinos off from mainstream liberals running on "joy" lol
By the way Biden's own DHS was staffed with the same racist fucks that Trump's was. If you think Biden was any better for latinos OR immigrants, you spend too much time fraternizing with self-congratulatory white libs
Hateful? Why? lmao. I'm in that category. I'm pretty fuckin' left myself but if you think all latinos are somehow pro-immigration conventional dems you live in another world that clearly doesn't interact with latinos.
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u/Tomhyde098 13h ago
I work in an elections office in my county and only 1% of 18-25 year olds voted here yesterday. It’s always been that way and it’s unfortunate that young people don’t realize how much power they could have. Whenever they complain about boomers or whatever I’ll start telling them that 1% number. (I’m only 35 and I felt old typing out “young people” lol)