The US will do everything in its power to dismantle socialism and convince people that it “doesn’t work” (just ignore how much work they put in to dismantle it)
Being nice to Cuba would cost a shitload of Cuban votes in Florida. Florida was, and is still close to, a swing state.
What candidate is going to a) risk losing Florida’s 30 Electoral College votes and b) get called a socialist, and for what gain? It sucks, but here we are.
I looked it up it seems like Cuban Americans tend to support the embargo, as a means of combating the Cuban government. Lots of Cuban Americans were forced to flee Cuba do to how the government were treating them under Castro. So the embargo was meant to act as a means of changing Cuba’s government.
These Cuban Americans make up a significant amount of Floridians, a state who is very important during presidential campaigns. So candidates tend to want to appease them. It sounds like in recent year there’s increasingly Cuban American support for lifting the embargo though.
TLDR: Cuban Americans who fled the Cuban government don’t like the Cuban government very much & they vote.
There are major profits being made to keep the embargo in place. Also if the embargo is lifted they won’t be able to gain citizenship so easily. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. I believe Cuba is the only country where citizens can flee and obtain US citizenship including Social Security and every other benefit.
They can get an expedited permanent residence (green card) after being here for one year I believe. Things were always dodgy. The wet foot, dry foot rules may have been ended though. That was a non official term for a policy created by Clinton. If your feet are on dry land, you can stay, if your feet are in a boat/raft/etc you were sent back to Cuba. There was a year where tens of thousands of Cubans that were trying to float across to florida. Rigging old cars up to makshift rafts in an effort to flee Cuba and make it to the U.S. That is where the slur “raft drifter” came about for Cubans I believe. Obama changed something to try to discourage that practice, traveling 100+ miles (160+ KM) in open water with makeshift transports Im sure was the end for to many lives. It’s horrible what people do to each other. The shit they had to go through to feel that was the necessary risk to better their families lives. Then the voyage, and then being treated like shit anyways if they got here.
I guess all we need to do is inform Republican voters of this fact and instantly their position on the embargo will change.
I count on their racism and hatred of the “other” way more than their hatred for an economic/governmental system they don’t even understand. I’d imagine the typical voter would say “fuck that, I’m not paying for their social security, they can rot in the communist hellhole they created for themselves!”
But why?
The US will do everything in its power to dismantle socialism and convince people that it “doesn’t work” (just ignore how much work they put in to dismantle it)
Scratching each other’s backs.
Being nice to Cuba would cost a shitload of Cuban votes in Florida. Florida was, and is still close to, a swing state.
What candidate is going to a) risk losing Florida’s 30 Electoral College votes and b) get called a socialist, and for what gain? It sucks, but here we are.
I really don’t understand what America gets out of the embargo?
Maybe someone more knowledgeable on the subject can chime in.
It just feels like being a dick for no reason at this point.
I looked it up it seems like Cuban Americans tend to support the embargo, as a means of combating the Cuban government. Lots of Cuban Americans were forced to flee Cuba do to how the government were treating them under Castro. So the embargo was meant to act as a means of changing Cuba’s government.
These Cuban Americans make up a significant amount of Floridians, a state who is very important during presidential campaigns. So candidates tend to want to appease them. It sounds like in recent year there’s increasingly Cuban American support for lifting the embargo though.
TLDR: Cuban Americans who fled the Cuban government don’t like the Cuban government very much & they vote.
There are major profits being made to keep the embargo in place. Also if the embargo is lifted they won’t be able to gain citizenship so easily. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. I believe Cuba is the only country where citizens can flee and obtain US citizenship including Social Security and every other benefit.
They can get an expedited permanent residence (green card) after being here for one year I believe. Things were always dodgy. The wet foot, dry foot rules may have been ended though. That was a non official term for a policy created by Clinton. If your feet are on dry land, you can stay, if your feet are in a boat/raft/etc you were sent back to Cuba. There was a year where tens of thousands of Cubans that were trying to float across to florida. Rigging old cars up to makshift rafts in an effort to flee Cuba and make it to the U.S. That is where the slur “raft drifter” came about for Cubans I believe. Obama changed something to try to discourage that practice, traveling 100+ miles (160+ KM) in open water with makeshift transports Im sure was the end for to many lives. It’s horrible what people do to each other. The shit they had to go through to feel that was the necessary risk to better their families lives. Then the voyage, and then being treated like shit anyways if they got here.
I guess all we need to do is inform Republican voters of this fact and instantly their position on the embargo will change.
I count on their racism and hatred of the “other” way more than their hatred for an economic/governmental system they don’t even understand. I’d imagine the typical voter would say “fuck that, I’m not paying for their social security, they can rot in the communist hellhole they created for themselves!”
Boot licks that believe Republicans still
If socialism succeeds on America’s doorstep, it will give American citizens…ideas.
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