The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).
The American government attacks the LGBTQ+ community… just like the Cuban government did in the 1960s.
Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century. The former has already devoted efforts toward attacking opposing ideologies and freedom of expression, concepts that the latter completely nullified.
I don’t see him pushing for the best healthcare or free public education so I’m not sure of the comparisons
these are florida based cubanos mind you. the original seed population for that community was peeple who fled cuba early because it was a threat to them personally. yes, they’re worried about the civil liberties lost, but a lot of them are also salty about the loss of their profit generating sugar plantations. they don’t really engage with the positive aspects of fidel castro’s dictatorship because for them, personally, those were negative aspects.
and none of this is to discount the issues of civil liberties experience in cuba, but a lot of later people who then arrive in florida for whom things weren’t as bad on the front of wealth redistribution get bombarded by the seed population saying “see, communism and wealth redistribution always leads to problems” and that propaganda subsumes any discussion surrounding the push between centralized vs decentralized authority.
plus you got the zionist community right there pushing anticommunist propaganda and suddenly southern florida is a nightmare of a location with people pushing for centralized authority to protect them from radical leftwing ideologies like “letting people live their lives”