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Some might ask: Well, if that's the case, why did Hispanics vote for Harris?

Do you know about Evita in Argentina? Probably not. You think you know because you watched a movie or musical. Silly goose.

This goes back to when my parents where young. Evita sent trucks full of bikes, refrigerators, appliances, etc. into poor neighborhoods to buy votes. Vote for her, get an appliance. Where did those appliances come from? They took them from "the rich", causing damage to manufacturers and destroying jobs.

This was one of the many obvert ways in which they bought votes. People fall for this because they are desperate. And people are desperate because the left wants to keep them there, needs to keep them there.

I think this observation is attributed to Gloria Alvarez: The left love the poor so much, they multiply them.

The strategy is simple: - Keep them poor and desperate - Do not solve their problems - Blame the other side for their condition - Toss gifts and promises in the every election - Win elections - Make sure they stay poor and desperate - Ignore them until next election

That's the playbook. This has been done across LATAM history so many times it's sick. And, yes, it works. Because you will always find people in every population who are desperate and uninformed enough to not be able to think past their current condition. Very few people make decisions with a ten+ year timeframe. This just happened in Argentina with Milei because people hit the bottom so hard they had to wake up and understand reality.

Harris promised "appliances" to people in the form of $25K gifts to buy homes, free entry into the US and a path to citizenship and a whole host of horrible policies I don't have time to repeat. So, yes, once again, as the LATAM time machine shows us, these things will drive a percentage of the population to cast votes in favor of the candidate sending trucks with appliances into their neighborhoods to buy their votes. And they will do this without realizing they are contributing to the destruction of their society and economy until they understand they have been in water that is about to boil the entire time.

Oh yes, and, of course, the other thing the left has done throughout LATAM's history (and Evita was no exception) is to control the media. If you control the media you can brainwash the shit out of people, as some of you are here in the US.

Of course, here the media are not officially under government control. This has been accomplished through outright indoctrination at our universities. As a result, a large majority of the people who work at media organizations are leftist ideologs who will happily support someone as dangerous and incompetent as Harris because they can't think past their indoctrination.

The messaging take-over by the left in the US was not done by force, like in most LATAM nations, it was done through shit ideologically-slanted "education" at our centers of "higher learning". I really hope Trump has a plan to slam these organizations (media and universities) hard. We need to fix this problem and do it quickly because it takes years for people who have not been subjected to indoctrination to emerge from university and join society.




LATAM has nothing in common with the Western thinking. You are people of passion, no matter who Argentinians vote in always ended in disaster. Milei if far right, and as big an idiot as your lefties.

Meanwhile, anyone who ever been to developed Europe or Asia can attest, that although far left by American standards, average Joe has far greater quality of live; heck even Canada has affordable healthcare which is such a big problem in the US.


> LATAM has nothing in common with the Western thinking. You are people of passion, no matter who Argentinians vote in always ended in disaster.

Be careful, your ignorance is showing.

On a more serious note, you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

"People of passion". Give me a fucking break. So, Latin Americans are emotion-driven robots. Great. Stop getting your fake facts from movies and leftist media for goodness sake.

> Milei if far right, and as big an idiot as your lefties.

Your ignorance makes me want to vomit.

Go live in an environment with 50% unemployment, massive government overreach and 250% annual inflation (after years of crippling inflation). Then come back and read your comment to understand what you sound like.


Hispanic men voted Trump. Overall Harris lost a lot of ground in the Hispanic vote compared to Biden.


Right. We need more Hispanics to vote Republican. One of the things I discuss with Hispanic friends is that none of us should vote for the kind of people who destroyed the countries we all came from. We have friends from Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, etc. Most are educated professionals who know their history and, in general, very aware of LATAM history and politics. Not ONE OF THEM votes on the left. Ever. Because they know where they came from.

Quite a few of the Hispanics who vote on the left are low-information, low-education voters who can be bought with fake giveaways, not realizing they are shooting themselves in the foot.

At the end it is always a matter of education. In the US, it is a matter of our educational institutions of "higher" learning having descended into becoming centers of indoctrination. I went to university in Argentina for engineering. We studied engineering, not the bullshit socially-twisted, time-wasting courses universities force students to take here in the US.

My oldest son attended a top university back east for CS. He burned a year of his life in the aggregate taking bullshit courses having nothing whatsoever to do with CS. They also forced him to take classes on Marxism where they romanticized the ideology. How? The made it the only class available, and if he wanted to graduate that was the only choice from here to eternity. I don't even want to imaging what they do to liberal arts students. It is truly despicable.




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