A friend recently sent me an article about the supposed evils of a huge Latino influx into the US and all of the attendant worries that people seem to have about this. This is my response:
Allow me to ask just one simple question: so what if Latinos want to have a separate, unassimilated cultural identity? Let 'em. Big deal. I myself do not like apple pie.
As for groups calling for the reconquista and the like - these are hardly serious. They are instead public relations ploys in order to get supporters who will give them money. That is the whole story. Every single interest group and lobby group is about the Benjamins - how can we get money for us (and our cause - in that order). This includes the Republican, Democrat, Green, and other political parties. In a market capitalist system, everything that is tied to money becomes about money, and politics works the same way that a shopping mall works - here are our wares and services, please come and give us your money. The real threat of any group or coalition of groups getting together, getting power and influence, and then ACTUALLY succeeding a part of the Southwestern US away from the federal republic, or (re)joining with Mexico, is so slim as to be unworthy of discussion. It just ain't gonna happen, and 90% of the proponents of this idea know that. But they continue to say it because it gets them supporters, who give them money.
Everything is for sale in America - including every wacked out idea you can come up with. There's a Flat Earth Society based in Oklahoma (some of the member of which view it as a joke, others do not). There are people who believe aliens are coming to save us, or destroy us. Some people probably think "The Matrix" was a documentary. If I want money from those people, I tell them what they want to hear.
Politi-economics.
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