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And I understand there are hundreds if not more, Spanish speaking radio stations across the country that have been taken over by right wing propagandists. Also terrifying. We have much work ahead of us.

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Some of us have been trying for literally a DECADE now to get Democratic establishment to pay more attention to Latino voters but our pleas have so far fallen on deaf ears

A lot of Latino immigrants come from countries where their leadership carries the moniker "socialist" but with the extent of their corruption in government, they behave a lot like Confederate Republicans behave here

And they believe in money 💰

And slicksters like Kushner take advantage of the confusion

Democratic leadership are a decade late in listening to those in their base who really understand this

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No, they didn't "allow" this to happen. Outreach to the Hispanic communities is very challenging here in the South, despite significant attempts to engage. I do worry that they vote against their own interests, but that seems common these days.

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Voting against one's own best interests has been common for at least the last 43 years. That's how Reagan was elected. Low info voters get distracted by the bullsh*t culture wars. In his book, J.D. Vance even acknowledged that lower income whites had more in common with lower income folks of other races than with white politicians promoting culture wars. The white politicians are often wealthy in their own right, but are supported by dark money libertarian networks.

The Fairness Doctrine needs to return for ALL forms of media--broadcast, cable, social media platforms, digital, print, whatever ways people communicate. The robber barons have created channels like Fox that rake in money as they spout lies and harm the country. Do you think that Rupert Murdoch cares one lick for democracy or ordinary people? He just wants their money.

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I sadly agree. Dems allowed this to happen.

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No Dems did not "Allow" this to happen.

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Yes, they did. Democrats abandoned a 50 state strategy, and the value of a great ground game (retail politics). For this group, along with others, Democrats have shown up every 4 years, made promises, expected that to be enough, and disappeared for another 4 years.

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Bingo. Florida R's has worked this angle to the Cuban American population for decades.

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But they are comfortable with “strong men,” and think democracy weakens a country.

Reagan said decades ago that Republicans were Republicans, they just didn’t know it yet.

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Thats scary. It seems counter intuitive that the Latino community would get behind Rs and Conservative identity politics. Some words by LBJ make it a lot more understandable why working class/Middle Class Latino's can be influenced. The quote is more universal than we give it credit to. Its about division and giving a group a reason and a why to look down on another group.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

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You are right Ted. That quote is more universal, and certainly explains how so many are influenced.

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That’s really interesting about the printing press. And now that communication technology has grown exponentially both in speed and volume reached, so have the lies, conspiracy theories and hate that divides.

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Just sucks when the common denominator in Republican strategy is hate and division. Someone to hate is another American. This should be antithetical to our founding principles of equality. It repeats itself whenever new communication technology comes to market. Internet, TV, Radio, Newspaper, printing press. I heard Tim Snyder say that it was the printing press that contributed to the most wars in Europe's history.

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