What's with the "Viva Bush" bumper stickers? People celebrating

[FloridaPat]

the fact the the USA is becoming a third world country like Mexico? I saw three of these today.

[xultar]

1. The fact that anyone would but a sticker refering to * in a positive light

on their car makes me wanna hurl.

[GCP]

2. Sounds like extreme right-wingers to me

Making a point that he's "soft" on immigration.
Just my 2 cents.

[earthside]

4. Get a Clue

Bush and the US Chamber of Commerce and the Kennedy-McCain, open borders and amnesty crowd are all on the same side.

Viva la 'Transnationale Corporation'!

Viva Bush!

Viva Low Wages!

Viva Peon Labor!

Viva Illegal Immigrants!

Viva Suburban Sprawl!

[unlawflcombatnt]

10. A perfect summary

You summed up every point perfectly, as well as pointing out who the real advocates are.

[unlawflcombatnt]

9. Exactly

That's exactly how it sounds to me.

[MADem]

3. Well, it depends

Were the vehicles driven by these guys? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdWvLOpvZMI&search=bush%20border

Or these idiots? (This bozos in this film might make you ILL, but bits are funny as hell): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCcZABahqgg&search=minutemen

[FloridaPat]

13. SUV's.

[MADem]

15. You'll want the second video, then! n.t

[RagingInMiami]

5. Do you live in Miami?

There all over my neighborhood, which is made up of older Cuban right-wingers.

[TahitiNut]

8. Batistans.

The fascists who fled north in the late 1950s. :puke:

[RagingInMiami]

11. Most of the Cubans in my neighborhood are the working class Cubans

who fled in the early 1960s. They were the ones who were against Batista and supported Castro in the beginning. It wasn't until Castro aligned himself with the Soviet Union that they started fleeing Cuba.

The Cubans who supported Batista and left in the late 1950s are actually a small percentage of the exiles. But after the Bay of Pigs, they were able to manipulate the majority working class Cubans into becoming republicans for life.

Most Cubans, like most Americans, are nothing but sheep when it comes to politics and look for other people to decide for them who should be in charge.

[TahitiNut]

16. It's my recollection that the Batista supporters ...

... initially scattered to many destinations, including South Florida, and over the following few years trickled into the US. The scenario was repeated, not to the same degree, when other Latin American countries were able to overturn an extreme right-wing regime. For example, I knew people in the Bay Area from El Salvador that skedaddled, taking their bank accounts with them. We seem to have been a common destination (along with Mexico) for the right-wing bourgeoisie - a bit like Argentina in 1944. It's not just those "yearning to breathe free" or wanting to work hard that've been coming to the US. I think a lot of folks miss this aspect. Chile. Venezuela. Nicaragua. El Salvador. Costa Rica.

Jus' sayin'. :shrug:

[RagingInMiami]

17. Back in the slave days

Before the Civil War. There was only a small percentage of southerners who owned slaves. You had to be rich to own slaves. Most white southerners were poor at the time.

But they still stepped up for the war, defending the rich's man "right" to own slaves even though the only thing that separated them from the slaves was a few measly wages and the fact they were not black.

But most people today would think that every white person at the time owned slaves.

So that is not to say that Miami did not have Batista supporters. They had their headquarters here. They were -- and to some extent, still are -- known as Alpha 66 and Omega 7. Typical CIA 1960s names.

But most Cubans are just working class saps, and I mean no disrespect by that except for the fact that they vote against their interests.

[FloridaPat]

14. Lakeland. I just noticed them today for the first time.

[RagingInMiami]

18. I cringe every time see one

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. I've seen them in Los Angeles, too.

:wtf:

[Kali]

12. There is a Mexican-American guy that comes out to hunt

on our place - he is a republican. He had one of those a couple of years ago. I wonder if he peeled it off yet.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. I saw them up in Northern Virginia...

mainly on SUVs and mini-vans driven by so-called soccer moms, along with "St. Something-or-other" school stickers.

I just did a quick search to see how the stickers came about, but stumbled upon this gem:

"I hate it when people are so concerned about war yet they dont care about innocent babies getting aborted!!"

and gave up. LOL