The average is not the individual

From the Atlantic - Democrats Should Be Worried About the Latino Vote by Christian Paz. In some ways it is the usual inside the beltway racist postmodernist intersectionalist social justice mumbling. But there is a key message that is pretty apparent but which keeps trying to be covered up.

Voters are individuals and while there are statistical trends and averages, the average is never the individual. Democrats, captive to the racism of postmodernist identity politics, are constantly sabotaged when individuals from group behave as individuals with needs and interests independent of some artificially imposed group average.

The blind spot are:

The individual is not the average.

Critical theory postmodernists always mistake classism as racism.

Religion, family, culture, and personal needs trump assumed ideological stereotypes.

People vote for improvements in their lives, not for identities.

If you focus on Hispanics, they are more religious, more family oriented, more patriotic and more work oriented than the average left leaning democrat. Not only are a large number of Hispanics amenable to the Republican message, a large number of Hispanics are Republican.

In Critical Theory world, this was not supposed to happen.

From Paz:

The first warning sign of the new year came three days into 2020. Speaking at a rally of conservative evangelicals in South Florida, President Donald Trump riffed on the targeted killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani before the thousands assembled in the King Jesus International Ministry megachurch, outside of Miami.

That night, the president captured headlines for declaring that “God is on our side” and accusing Democrats of disloyalty for not supporting his air strike. But for Domingo Garcia, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, what the headlines—and Democrats—missed was the significance of the rally’s location: the home of the country’s largest Hispanic evangelical congregation.

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“It feels like every four years there’s this clutching of the pearls and head-scratching about why the hell Latinos don’t vote,” Marisa Franco, a co-founder of the Latino activist network Mijente, told me. “I don’t think it’s an absence of interest. It’s a hunger for options.”

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“Yes, there are Latino citizens and voters who are more comfortable in Spanish, but people are interested in what kind of a candidate you are and … what are you planning to do,” said Clarissa Martinez de Castro, the deputy vice president for policy and advocacy at UnidosUS, one of the oldest Latino advocacy groups in the country. “I think a lot of times, where Latino voters are concerned, they tend to be either taken for granted and/or attacked. And so our biggest fear is that we see a continuation of that.”

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Representative Norma Torres of California told me that some candidates seem to overlook how issues such as education, affordable housing, raising the minimum wage, and college affordability dominate the minds of many working-class and young Latinos in particular. Torres, who immigrated to the United States from Guatemala as a child, said three candidates had met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s political arm, of which she is a member. In those meetings, the candidates “regurgitate old policy,” she said, and “forget that the majority of Latinos live in communities like mine, which are very, very poor, working-class.”

Still, beyond their concerns about throwaway lines and policy blind spots, the organizers I spoke with said they fear that the candidates are struggling to understand a key fact about Latinos in America: They are a tremendously diverse group ideologically and culturally. And that diversity means there’s an opening for Republican overtures.

The other striking thing about this article is how it reads more like an office memo within the DNC rather than an article for a national and diverse readership.