Reply #2: Unfortunately, Mexican-Bashing Is Likely To Be A More Successful Strategy To The Middle-Term

[Vogon_Glory]

Unfortunately, Mexican-bashing looks to be a successful strategy for Republicans and right-wingers now and into the middle-term. The trouble is that many Texas Hispanic voters simply DON'T vote. The Texas Hispanic voter turnout at the last election was DISMAL. I'm convinced that miserable turnout is one of the reasons the Republicans got a super-majority in the last election. THEIR voters were fired up and angry; OUR base was lackluster and the non-voters did it to us again.

I am still in despair. Why did the Republicans even BOTHER thinking up vote-suppression schemes here in Texas when so many Hispanics don't bother to go to the polls? What would it take to enlighten Mexican-American voters to the idea that you elect state representatives, state senators, and statewide officials to represent your interests, not because they're pretty, manly-looking or "popular with the other guys"? Would conveying the idea that "silence (or inactivity) implies consent" do any good? Would carrying the message that "they're doing this to you because you let them" do any good?

I don't know. I'm an Anglo-Saxon gabacho. I'm stumped.