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by newaccountman2 8 days ago
> Most Americans don’t even realize that there are millions of folks in Miami whose parents fled Cuba when the communists took over.

No, we know, we just don't think it should affect our foreign policy.

My own family also fled a similar situation btw, communists ousting them and taking their business, ultimately leading them to emigrate here.

But you have no idea how unsympathetic "pre-revolution Cuban factory owner" sounds lol, IDK how naive you think the rest of us are.

My grandfather's family, which owned the aforementioned business that got taken by communists, didn't do anything of use for other people or even for themselves really (e.g. didn't send kids abroad to get educated, as they should have). So karma got 'em (though ultimately the reason for the revolution could be ascribed more to the moral failings of colonial government than people like them).

Now, here, we see how the rich Cubans here are. How they vote. How they think they are better than other Hispanics, etc. Not interested in doing anything those people want.

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And what’s with this “our politics” bs? You don’t think Cuban Americans are as American as you are?
What about what I said is inconsistent with Cuban Americans being American?

It's all of our collective foreign policy, so why should we let one portion of us drag it off in some direction that the whole doesn't care for?

You’re saying you’d rather support a communist government in this matter than your fellow citizens. Thats a cool direction.
yawn

If you believe your own bullshit so resolutely that you think not aggressively supporting regime change = "supporting a communist government", then I think you are precisely illustrating what many of us in this thread are saying.

Also, whole point of a democracy is that we disagree as fellow citizens, is it not?

I can tell you factory owners aren’t exactly billionaires. There haven’t been rich Cubans coming since the 60’s. But there have been tons of other Cubans coming. They also hate communism. Why else would they leave?