Summary
Trump’s support among Latinos has plummeted as he nears his first 100 days in office, with many saying they feel betrayed by the scope of his policies, particularly immigration enforcement.
Almost three in four Latinos (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president.
Many Venezuelans, for example, have been impacted by the decision to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they’re going to come take me somewhere I won’t be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
Unfortunately a lot of the latino vote comes from the religious, macho, and anti-liberal attitudes they hold. Lots of them are catholic, and even if the republicans are absolutely full of shit when it comes to being “Christian”, their propaganda claiming they are has been very effective. The latter two are in a way perversely tied together. They like macho “strong man” leaders, but unfortunately there are a lot of latin/hispanic countries run by strong man leaders claiming to be liberal leftists that are nothing more than tyrants and authoritarians that wreck their countries. So they vote anti-liberal, associating liberal with tyrants, while supporting yet another “strong man” fascist that will fuck the country up.
*I am not latin, however I worked in a latin country and have worked with several latin/hispanic people and learned what I could about their country, culture and politics, and this is how it was explained to me.
Now I’m not an American and definitely not a Latino, but I’ve heard there’s a huge amount of Latinos who hate Latinos and want them all to stay out of the country (I.e fuck you, got mine), which is part of why they vote republican. Also all the Cuban refugees who really hate Cuba so they also vote republican just to make sure democrats don’t ease the sanctions on Cuba - which are of course making life hard for people who have not yet escaped Cuba. Hell I bet without the sanctions a lot of people wouldn’t be leaving it in the first place.
If all that is true, honestly, this is a peak leopards eating faces moment.
Oh darn! If only somebody had warned them about what would happen…
While I upvoted you, and we absolutely did tell them that. Many of them through no fault of their own weren’t reached by the message. And that’s something we need to figure out how to fix. Because with the consolidation of media and AI, this is only going to get worse.
Patting ourselves on the back about being right. Will only comfort us so much, when our lack of reach etc. Continues to haunt us
Many of them through no fault of their own weren’t reached by the message.
That’s where we disagree. Media bubbles exist but the internet makes it so easy to find opposing viewpoints that failing to do so should absolutely be considered a personal failure. They’d rather believe a comforting lie than confront the truth and that is how shitty people live their lives.
The internet absolutely does that I agree. The problem is. That you think that everyone else is as terminally online as we are. And in that way you are as bad as they are. This isn’t an accusation against you specifically or anything. I’m just pointing out how we can all ultimately do bad things unintentionally. By simply assuming that everyone else is like us.
You don’t need to be terminally online to know that Donald Trump is a piece of shit. You’re trying really hard to justify intentional stupidity. Empathy is good but you don’t need to employ it to the point that you force a reason to let these people off the hook. In fact, I would argue that nothing will change until we all accept our role in educating ourselves. It’s not anyone else’s job to do that.
I’m not the one here trying to justify anything. That’s you. You’re the one here trying to pull off some ridiculous conspiracy theory where more than half the voting population are either mentally handicapped or evil in order to justify your 2 minutes hate.
Simply unwilling to acknowledge that the majority of people still get all their information from the mainstream media. The same mainstream media that we call out here on a daily basis for being tepid spineless and inaccurate in their coverage of everything including Palestine. The same mainstream media that has given Trump and Republicans far too much undue deference and respect. Propping them up. It’s not that you can’t understand the people who voted for Trump it’s that you don’t want to.
The fact that you could be on Reddit or Lemmy and claim that you are somehow not terminally online is especially hilarious. Being on either of those is absolutely terminally online. Brother we both are. You just lack the self-awareness. And that’s the problem.
The amount of time I spend online is entirely irrelevant to the question at hand. Your focus on that particular point, which I never disputed, is pretty odd. You can find the information I’m referring to in a 30 second Google search which pretty much everyone does on a regular basis for things they care about. The problem is that a good chunk of people don’t care enough to find out whether or not they’re being lied to by the media they consume. I don’t think it’s necessary to excuse that level of ignorance but you seem insistent on doing so. That’s not being understanding it’s justifying idiocy for no good reason.
No fucking way! I don’t feel sorry for any Latinos or Hispanics that voted for Trump. Ya’ll are traitors to democracy and our constitution for installing a dictator. You think people would learn from the dictatorship countries they fled.
Ah, but those were Communist dictatorships. Capitalist dictatorships are a-okay! (or so they thought.)
Scream communist and create a Banana Republic. As long as USA is in charge.
If you voted Trump as a Latino, that’s a special sort of stupid.
latinos down south have been brainwashed and indoctrinated since thier parents immigrated here decades ago,.
I mean, what did they expect?
Don’t worry. There is room in the gas chamber for people in wheel chairs too, you fucking freeloading fat strain on the economy.
“I just don’t understand why he betrayed Us, I mean… he did nothing but campaign on open contempt for our people, but surely he cant be held accountable for that! This is just so unexpected and blindsiding us!”
Not betrayed. Victims of their own stupidity. A bunch of ladder pullers.
I love my Latino brothers and sisters in the world but I will never understand why a single one of them support Donald trump. it makes no fucking sense at all.
A lot of Catholics are socially conservative.
There’s a big difference between conservative and supporting your own oppressor.
“His whole life has consisted of nothing but lying, backstabbing, betrayal and treason. Who could have ever imagined he’d keep doing that?”
It sure sucks when a leopard eats your face.
But why didn’t anyone warn me that they were going to eat -my- face?! I’m a good <person with face>!!
The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis – and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda – that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?
There won’t be any “reasonable” Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.
will voters learn from this?
History says no.
I used to live in a heavily Hispanic area, and I can tell you there absolutely will be nothing learned from any of it.
Cause any Republican attacks against Hispanics were always hand-waved away with some variant of “Of course, they’re talking about (insert Hispanic group the speaker hates), not about the good ones like (insert Hispanic group the speaker belongs to). If it wasnt for (hated group) fucking it all up things would be better for all of us!”
Republicans don’t make such distinctions, to Republicans all Hispanics are just Mexicans.
Which is how the leopards facial feast was laid out.
They’re not unique in that regard. All his supporters will hand-wave away anything that affects them negatively.
It would help if the other side wasn’t “vote for us or we’ll let the nazis destroy the country to spite you.”
The thing is RELIGION. Most Latinx people are religious and more specifically Catholics. Abrahamic religions are extremely misogynistic and homophobic. All Trump had to do was show how much he hates women and the LGBTQ+ community and a lot of Latinx were willing to ignore his racism because they thought Trump would help them punch down on women and gay people. They thought they would avoid getting their faces eaten by the leopard by offing the faces of others in sacrifice to the leopard.
What’s the word for leopard in uh… Spanish?
El Opardo!
Source: i don’t know Spanish at all
in this case it would jaguars and pumas.
LOL? Betrayed?
This is the fucking party, chuckleheads. They want you gone. Doesn’t matter if you were born here.
Stop voting for these motherfuckers. Not one Republican should ever be allowed into office.
