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Originally Posted by Invictus
If I could make everybody in this thread read one post, it would be this one.
We have a large, powerful Hispanic constituency, but hardly any of them vote or exercise organized power politically.
If the Tea Party can do it, if nativists and anti-immigrants and white supremacists can wield political power, why can't the Hispanic community?
Why is it all these isolated groups when we can have one large united popular front?? |
Thanks for the propers, man.
I have been kind of silently taking everything in since the failure of the DREAM Act, and it seems to me electoral power is the only way to proceed. I wish we could somehow make a targeted campaign against politicians who went anti-Hispanic to send a message that they are trying to drag history in the wrong direction. I really think that this should be the entire focus of the next two years. Here are seats I think could send a good message to Republicans (and an implied message to Democrats and not always realistic):
Kay Bailey Hutchinson's seat (a prime target).
Jeff Sessions seat (out of pure spite, but not really based on reality).
John Kyl's seat (a prime target).
Lindsey Graham's seat.
Steve King's seat (out of spite).
Elton Gallegy's seat (out of spite cause he is the OG xenophobe).
Lamar Smith's seat (a good target).
Any other seats in the South, and especially in TX, CA, AZ, GA, SC, NC and Nevada.
I think a targeted approach really could lead to some upsets that would send a message--the opposite way that the Tea Party did the last time around. I also feel people should not vote for Obama, unless the GOP alternative is so bad as to force one's hand to prevent a new form of Nazism.
Just wish more people would listen about activism like this though. Ugh.