GOP's stranglehold on Cuban-American's vote.

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Ever since I can remember, back in the 80s and even now, it astounds me how anyone whom rightfully escapes Cuba's communism comes to America and votes for a party that clearly panders to a xenophobic base. And even on economics. the GOP have been masters in that same time, of selling the idea that if you dare question or tax billionaires somehow, you want to become like Cuba.

Why the boomerang? Economies don't have to be "Che/Castro vs Ayn Rand". Some on the far left, whom I do not agree with, being a liberal myself, have pointed to Cuba's free medical care and higher education. But then as a result, those on the far right shout "SEE SEE SEE, THEY DO WANT COMMUNISM." 

I'd argue that you can have both an open market, and a fair market, and the private sector, and affordable living without infringing on personal freedom.

Being a liberal, I don't like Hitler, or Stalin or Castro, or even China's oppressive politics. But currently in America, there is imbalance of power and wealth between the top and the bottom. Questioning someone in Jeff Bezo's class does not mean I love Castro, or China's politics. It merely means we are currently lopsided as far as having a voice in government and the results that come out of our voices. 

Marco Rubio to me, is a horrible representative for Cuban refugees, and even poor rural whites that his party appeals to nationally. I want freedom for Cubans. I also want urban and rural workers to be stable too. I don't see how Jeff Bezos is helping humanity in this respect when his class's wealth is astronomically and epically far higher than the low level workers giant corporations make. 

Why cant we have universal health care and affordable living and value freedom?  

The GOP would argue the only class that knows what is best for everyone else are billionaires. But to Marco, why does he never talk about the fact that when Fidel Castro died, he had a personal estimated wealth of $800 million dollars? Why does the GOP never point out that the Saudi Royal Family are billionaires? Why do they never point out the fact that Gadaffi was a billionaire?

Why do the GOP ignore that if one were to visit Beijing China, one can find Apple stores and McDonald's? Billionaires are not a patent held by the open west. There is not one nation, friend or foe, that does not invest in the global market.

I hate states that silence journalists, and oppress dissent. American Cubans can do far better than the GOP and Marco.

I think you raised more than one question with this OP.

One mistake many Americans make is lumping all Latino-American cultures together, as though their common-ish language and skin tone indicate a distinct and unilateral culture when their culture and politics are as diverse as that of the United States.  Cubans for the last 2 or 3 generations have been exposed to the effects of communism and a dictator who stole private property and killed citizens to consolidate power.  Most Cubans have a culture in Florida that insulates them from the true disdain that most WASPs have for Latinos of any sort.  This and their continued hatred of the controlling regime in Cuba informs their politics to some degree.

But the other issue you brought up is simply due to the willing lobotomy that many, many, many WASPs have undergone.  My parents are excellent examples of this.  They voted for Jimmy Carter and were very suspicious of Regan in his first term.  But decades of continual church-borne indoctrination have them now believing that Carter was the one who sold weapons to the contras and handed over Americans to the Iranians as hostages.  On just about any topic I ask them, they believe the unbelievable.  It's as if their brains had been scooped out and replaced with oatmeal, strawberry flavor of course.  This occurs more in insular, smaller, rural towns than anywhere else.  To them, the Democratic party is a group of international child porn socialistic baby-killers and each and every one has sworn an oath to Satan.  I fucking kid you not.  For the GOP, there can be no in between; there can be only us and them.  It's the most ingenious political plot of our time and it has worked like a miracle.  I have friends whom I was once very close to, but after 2 decades of a daily diet of Fox News, I no longer even recognize them.  They now sound like mindless idiots.