Stay out of my Country

While I was changing channels on my tv I saw this beautiful, articulate, Hispanic young lady answering questions and participating in a political discussion. The young lady I was watching was Miami's own Ana Navarro. It made me realize how difficult the political problem is, in the Miami area. She knows the leadership of the GOP does not like people who look like or sound like her or her family. She is from a group of habitual Republicans who are loyal to the cause of what they wish Republicanism stands for.

Stay out of my country?

Both of our political parties are driven by the insatiable desire for power that drives politicians. Their attitude for the most part is, get out of my way. Or, rather, don't look at what I do, just listen to what I say and vote for me. That didn't just happen overnight.  My take on what has happened in today's GOP, is this new, 'lie in your face' tactic. You know, when they know the person they are lying to, knows they are lying.   Yet they lie anyway. That used to be unacceptable in U.S. politics..  And it seems there is a real danger of this becoming endemic to the leaders of the GOP, if it hasn't happened already.. The 'cowardly' Democrats, on the other hand, seem to shrink whenever they lie. It causes the Democrats so much stress that on occasion they will actually do what they tell you they are going to do, even if it benefits the country at their expense. The new ingredient in the GOP is they think they have discovered a way to keep obvious lying from being held against them at election time. Like, you know, repeating sound bites over and over again, especially those that will appeal to the voters emotions, or worse base instincts.  This has made the GOP a haven for almost all the haters, racists and bigots in this country. And a get rich quick method for noted so called 'conservative' speakers or broadcasters when they join a scripted channel.  All you gotta do is follow the script.

Speaker Boehner and Mitch McConnell

They figure tactics will overcome the blatant rash of 'in your face' lying.
The immigration example, getting Hispanics to vote for the GOP, is no more difficult or different for them than getting senior citizens to vote for the GOP. Including some of those who know starting the Social Security program in the U.S. was the result of a war between the GOP (against) and the Democrats (for). And like the Civil War for some in the South, for the GOP in the South, its still being fought. That war, with the GOP, who opposed Social Security from the git go, is still a tough fight. Imagine if the GOP had successfully privatized Social Security, prior to the economic disaster induced by Cheney & Co. in 2008.  Imagine what would have happened to Social Security if the GOP had actually invested the Social Security funds in the stock market, before the melt down in 2008.
My father's father was born in Europe and my mother, who was born in Scotland, came to the USA at the age of eight. But that is not the main reason I am on the Immigration Reform side of the Immigration War. Its my experience with Hugo that was so heartbreaking.
At age eighteen there was not a more admired student graduating from Miami Beach High. If a Republican judge, with a deserved reputation for sending people back to where they came from, who  represents the 'Stay out of MY Country' thinking of the GOP leadership, could send Hugo back to Columbia, then you should recognize this GOP shit for what it is. 
If what that judge did had happened during the school year you would have seen demonstrations at Miami Beach High similar to those that occurred in North Miami when the Hispanic High School Valedictorian was threatened with deportation. To kids, 'right and wrong' is instinctive. To the politicians who are using every tactic to sabotage Immigration Reform, its just another way of pandering to the haters, who seem to dominate, when it comes to influencing the GOP.  
Ana, many years ago I met a Hispanic young man with political ambitions and I asked him why he was running for political office as a Republican when he had said he was a Democrat.   His answer was, "I don't like the Representative in the district and if I run as a Democrat I would have to run against him in a primary with no chance to win. As a Republican I can be on the ballot right away in the general election, because he has no opponent."   His thinking was very clever.  He did not win that election but he represents many who used the same thinking to enter the political arena in our area, and many of them did get elected.   The Hispanic population in Miami grew fast and became the way for individual Hispanics to enter politics.  And thus was born the GOP Hispanic influence in Dade County.. So I don't have much political advice for you except, life is a game and as in all games there are people in it. And some people do shit because its in their DNA.   And some because of their lust for power and money.  And when they join together and make enticing gestures for you to come on their side it can be hard to resist.  So keep doing what you are doing as long as you feel its sincere and if some 'Stay out of MY Country' GOP people get elected with help from your efforts, well, that's how it goes in our political system.

Maybe some day the GOP leaders will discover how much good has happened in our country because of dedicated people, some of whom talk with an accent, and who look just like you, and like everybody else who became part of who we are.  Because of the chance they got when they came here, most became citizens.  Just like so many of us, or our parents, or their parents..

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