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34% is still unbelievably high
That's the power of mass media and especially social media propaganda. People live completely isolated from facts and reality.
I would make a joke like "Wow! I should use mass media to convince people to buy my shitty products, but convince them that they need it. Then overcharge!"
Except the basis of that joke being a joke would rely on the core concept NOT happening for real. Which it is. So that would just make me a part of the problem....
Apparently 34% have yet to be handcuffed on suspicion of being rapist vermin from Mexico.
Most Hispanics aren’t first-generation or 2nd generation immigrants and nor are they a monolithic group. Ted Cruz is Hispanic. Cubans in Florida whose grandpa ran a “night club” under Bautista fled after taking that ass whooping Castro and friends gave them are Hispanic. Even some new immigrants were right wing already and fear “the left” will be Hugo Chavez clones.
Being American (US variety), I know Trump doesn’t make those distinctions and anyone willing to work for ICE will probably harass anyone who isn’t a white male of Northern European descent — though they’re apparently harassing Germans now too — but 34% is about as good as you’re going to get if you lump all the Spanish or Portuguese speaking countries of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and the several regions of South America together as if they’re one group. People from Argentina and the Dominican Republic are probably voting differently.
On the flip side, Dems will regularly get that much of the vote in really red areas.
2028 Elections: Texas turns blue
Fortunately the governor election is in 26, but that's living in fantasy land.
I think most people just don't pay attention. Perhaps when the shitnami hits the fan, people will start to react.