I really don’t understand why Cuba is still on some dumb blacklist when the Cold War has been over for decades. I mean… WTF?!?
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Cuban immigrants in Florida tend to hate the Cuban government. Opening up relations would mean losing all of their votes, and nobody wants to risk that.
Oh, no, democrats wouldn't have a chance of winning in Florida? That is almost as bad as hurting our chances of winning Mississippi!
Pretty sure the Cuban population tends to vote republican because of the press about democrats being socialist wannabes or whatever.
Didn’t Obama loosen restrictions on Cuba and the Trump put it back to how it was before?
Except the endgame is to change the government for the better. Perhaps they are wedded to the idea of a permanent bad government in Cuba, which forms their personality.
They don't vote Democrat regardless because of Kennedy
It's so fucking stupid man. Like, even assuming you hate communism, would the best way to beat communism not be to heavily trade with it and just McDonalds the communism away? Like if capitalism is superior it will just spread around and win.
Makes no sense to me.
Because Obama moved to normalize relations a little bit so Trump had to set it back further.
He’s such a lovely man isn’t he?
Good. This could be mutually beneficial for the Biden administration and Cuba.
It's criminal that Cuba has been crushed with sanctions for decades all because the US doesn't like their government. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot how people would react
You mean try to address the source of the problems which lead desperate people to come to the US in the first place instead of malign brown people once they're already here? How dreadfully reasonable. Republicans would hate it. "You're not hurting the right people!"
Seems pretty fair.
Talks with the Cuban regimen/dictatorship? Maybe ask Mexico's president what he thinks of the thousands of Cubans that flee the island every year and the cruelty that the regimen show to their own citizens. Of course he will have no comments since they're on the same team.
Internet trolls can downvote all you want, this is not reddit you don't have the same leverage here.