Cuban-American here. Cubans over a certain age are most definitely MAGA. Most of the ones who came here escaping Castro, as well as most of the ones raised by those same people here in the states, are MAGA or hard-right leaning. I’ve gone into this before on Lemmy, so I’ll copy/paste what I wrote then:
My mom is Cuban. She came to the US in '61. The Cubans were indoctrinated to believe that Kennedy, a Democrat, was responsible and that his party were all Socialists and that led to Communism.
This is why most Cubans believe what they do and vote GOP. It is absolutely based in ignorance.
She voted for a Democrat for the first time in 2008 and has ever since. It’s better than the alternative. But I’m not going to convince a 72 year old woman in the starting stages of Alzheimer’s there’s a better way.
Peter Pan and Mariel Boat Lift Cubans are less likely to be MAGA/GOP. Another thing to take into account is that the diaspora is not friendly or kind to Cubans who don’t share their views. My mom and grandma were both shunned by the rest of my family who are MAGA. We were referred to as socialists (in my case, that’s not wrong) and in others cases, we would altogether not be invited to family gatherings simply due to political bent.
Because MAGA has most recently promised they’ll crush Cubas success and get their slave colony back for them. They don’t see or care about the suffering inflicted on Cuba and it’s citizens.
It is good to see some of the younger Cuban-Americans breaking away from that indoctrination.
What had me commenting was the articles use of ‘Cubans’ and the implication that they mainly support MAGA. They don’t mean Cubans, nor do they care what actual Cubans think. They meant Cuban-Americans, a very different group, whose priority is recapturing their slave colony.
(Generalised, again good on you and your mom for breaking away from that.)
Cuban-American here. Cubans over a certain age are most definitely MAGA. Most of the ones who came here escaping Castro, as well as most of the ones raised by those same people here in the states, are MAGA or hard-right leaning. I’ve gone into this before on Lemmy, so I’ll copy/paste what I wrote then:
Peter Pan and Mariel Boat Lift Cubans are less likely to be MAGA/GOP. Another thing to take into account is that the diaspora is not friendly or kind to Cubans who don’t share their views. My mom and grandma were both shunned by the rest of my family who are MAGA. We were referred to as socialists (in my case, that’s not wrong) and in others cases, we would altogether not be invited to family gatherings simply due to political bent.
The Cuban-American diaspora is fucked.
Because MAGA has most recently promised they’ll crush Cubas success and get their slave colony back for them. They don’t see or care about the suffering inflicted on Cuba and it’s citizens.
It is good to see some of the younger Cuban-Americans breaking away from that indoctrination.
What had me commenting was the articles use of ‘Cubans’ and the implication that they mainly support MAGA. They don’t mean Cubans, nor do they care what actual Cubans think. They meant Cuban-Americans, a very different group, whose priority is recapturing their slave colony.
(Generalised, again good on you and your mom for breaking away from that.)
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