So goes America
Writing by treason on Sunday, 25 of June , 2006 at 3:54 pm
I’d written recently about how many people in America were voting in the last Italian election, and it made me question dual citizenship and wonder if I would continue to vote in American elections if I moved to another country.
I can’t help think if I left this one and moved to another it would be because I’d turned on America. If you break up with someone, do you really care who they’re seeing and what they’re doing after the split? If you do, then maybe you shouldn’t have parted. If I leave the U.S., then my allegiance is someplace else and I should focus on elections in my adopted country.
Interestingly, there are at least 140,000 Mexican citizens living in my state and some are registered to vote in the upcoming Mexican election. Our local paper went out and found citizens to interview about their views on the vote for the presidency.
“Frankly, I don’t have any interest. Mexico is just too bad. Simply put, it’s all about corruption.”
“I haven’t been paying attention because I don’t have a voter ID card to vote. Plus, my life is here now. I do hope they get a good president, though. It’s the only way the Mexican economy will improve.”
“I will vote, and I’m going to be voting for Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Roberto Madrazo. I think he’s going to offer us more work opportunities than the other candidates.”
“I’m more in tune with politics in the United States - it’s where my life is. I only visit Mexico on occasion to vacation or visit family.”
“I don’t live in Mexico, and even though I could vote, I don’t anymore. The last time I voted for a Mexican president, I was about 21 years old. Now, I don’t think it’s fair for me to vote for a Mexican president if I don’t even live there anymore.”
“I’ll vote for the party of the current president (PAN)…(Lopez Obrador) is very popular, but there’s a lot of corruption in that (PRD) party, and PAN, they’re a little more serious.”
“Vote? For what? I could, but why, when they’ll just keep stealing from us. I prefer (leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez) Obrador, but I don’t have much faith.”
“I have citizenship here and in Mexico. I always vote in both countries’ presidential elections. It’s very important to me who is running Mexico because my family and friends are there. I’ll be voting for Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party.”
“It doesn’t matter who wins. They are all corrupt. They all want the same thing: money, money, money.”
“I would like (PAN candidate Felipe) Calderon to win, but my father and family live here…I could go back and re-register, get my registration card, but I don’t think the United States would like people voting there, too. It doesn’t look good.”
“It’s too hard. There was too much paperwork.”
My observations? Mexican voters sound an awful lot like American voters. The parties are a tad confusing, too. The PRD party is the Democratic Revolution Party; the PAN party is the National Action Party. I’ll be paying attention to this race because Mexico is our neighbor and the outcome will affect immigration and our economy. I’ll also be watching because Calderon, whose father helped found the party, is Conservative and he’s not the greatest speaker. Lopez Obrador, on the other hand, is described as the “candidate of the common people,” a leftist, and known to make women swoon when he walks into a room. He has sex appeal, charisma, and stage presence. Sounds strangely familiar, doesn’t it?
It’s George W. Bush versus Bill Clinton, and I want to see which way Mexicans will go. I can’t help think that if they go the wrong way we’ll be seeing a chubby, dark-haired intern named Maria showing up in photos with the silver-tongued “sexy” white-haired guy.
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