Maybe Offer Free Burritos With Every Vote
link Hispanics not motivated for 2010 election – Washington Times.
The racism accusation is a favorite device used by liberals when trying to gather support from immigrants from opposing conservatives during elections. Anyone paying attention to the rhetoric knows the opposite is true, that the people supposedly championing racial equality are the same ones treating ethnics as homogeneous blocs.
While that may be true for a specific segment of the voting population in the US, namely blacks, according to this link, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/obama-approval-gallup-blacks.html, it’s unlikely that most people necessarily vote along racial lines. In the case of Latinos, many of whom are escaping their homelands of Mexico or Cuba in order to improve their economic circumstances, personal finance and well being are more important to them than solidarity with their ethnic brethren. If they just wanted to hang out with their peeps, presumably, they wouldn’t have taken the trouble to break into the U.S.
It’s actually insulting to all minorities that just because someone in office is of their race that they should automatically receive the group vote. It’s always been amusing to me that “Person A” deigns to represent the Asian community, or the Latino community or the Polish community. Imagine if someone were put forth to represent the White community. Chris Matthews would be foaming like mentos in a coke bottle.
Getting back to Latinos, or all ethnics for that matter; they all have one thing in common in their arriving to the U.S., the ambition to make something of themselves in one of the few, if not the only nation left in the world, where you can succeed based only on your hard work. Most people are driven by the desire for a better life for their family than observance of any group cause. In that respect, this parallels the desires of most of the larger community. When you think about it, that was the essence of the founding of the country in the first place 300 years ago. So if politicians are going to pander and lie to the people, at least lie about the things that affect everyone. Everyone basically wants the same things, jobs, freedom and of course the classic and elusive pursuit of happiness. Well, most people.
So when the headlines read that Hispanics are not motivated for the 2010 election, maybe, just maybe that’s because the present administration’s policies aren’t viewed favourably by them… as individuals. People aren’t monolithically stupid because of race. Bad policies for one are probably bad policies for all.