It's starting to feel like DSA has better Latino recruitment than the Dem party does. Barely any center left spanish speaking folks in power anywhere which is why we keep seeing the Castro brothers come out every 2 years.
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So no cash assistance at all? I thought the House bill at least a one time payment to everyone?
Bernie's NV numbers show that, the difference is cracking Caribbean Latinos in FL. "Too red" seems like a big problem among Cuban ex-pats
It has a cash payment, just a one-time one.
It's the same issue as Eastern European immigrants during and directly after the Cold War: they lived under dictatorships so they aren't going to trust anything that even resembles what they lived under for fear of it coming here.
I know but thats exactly why there should be establishment Dems who can speak to those groups even. They don't have to be remotely Demsoc but it seems like a failure that Latino recruitment has mostly sucked for Dems in the last 20 years.
Latinos are underrepresented in electoral politics in general relative to their population numbers. They vote Dem/GOP 65/35, yet black voters are 27% of the primary electorate while they're 7-8%. Part of this is the relatively young age profile, part of this is that immigrants generally take generations to get their families participating in US political structures. It's a multifaceted problem without simple solutions.
Who cares really? Everyone is already treating it as Biden vs Trump. That will still be 5-6 months to get behind Biden. This is just a non-factor at this point.
Think the initial Romney check had a certain amount of credit that people latched onto Trump. Think this will reverse in the coming month given that Trump and GOP are opting to sacrifice the elderly.
A lot of people are going to die.
I'm so happy we can finally agree that Bernie is a non-factor.
The report that Harvey Weinstein got it is disturbing, because it means it's already likely totally out of control in the prison system, which is terribly equipped to deal with wide scale health problems.
It's just reality so I've already moved past the primary. At this point I'm just focusing my attention on corona related matters. I think the entire country is. I mean, yeah I would rather not waste my time thinking about the primary anymore which is what the debate would do or Bernie staying in the race would do. But even with him still in, most of us have moved on and aren't wasting any concern over it.
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The entire country except for one Bernie Sanders who couldn't be assed to show up to vote and is forcing us to engage in this pointless exercise.
