[Inkie]

Exactly. What I don't get is ... there is big old Mexico down there, with all its corruption, filth, crappy economy, etc. They come here, and then they want to turn this place into ... (shaking head) ... Mexico! The mind boggles!

[meenie]

Aztlan plans to take northern Mexico and the Southwest of the United States and create a new nation. This is not a joke, these people have been working on it for at least a decade. The old Texas Republic is becoming our Kosovo. Look it up on Google. It will amaze you.

[daviddennis]

I'd put it even stronger - Mexico is nicer. Parts of it have gorgeous beaches, perfect water temperature and a lovely Carribean climate.

If they want Mexico ... they should really go to Mexico. Nice place if you don't mind rotten housing and a near-complete lack of economic opportunity.

Which looks like what their plan would bring them. From what I can tell about it, it's pretty much standard socialist junk.

if you read between the lines in their stuff, you might notice apparent tensions between the creators of these plans and the poor they claim to serve. Turns out that poor Mexicans like taking our money more than they want a new country.

This is really aimed at Mexicans who make it to college and find it difficult. They can take refuge in their own little college-based barrio.

It's strikingly similar to a cult. You're sucked in through help with your studies mixed with liberal doses of propaganda. I strongly suspect that as you go through it, the propaganda gets more intense and the education drops away.

I strongly suspect that Bustamante is be too dumb to realize this. That's why he understates this as a problem. He probably never got past the "help with your studies" level.

I don't think he fully understands the fix he's in.

If he's too dumb to realize where this movement is really going, well, he's too dumb to fix California's problems, too.

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