San Miguel de Allende is basically a little Trumpistan in Mexico and it's weird, that being said, I think a lot people lack critical thinking skills, and feel that they're somehow different from other immigrants/emigrants because they have money, as if those who migrate to the US don't, or aren't doing important jobs Americans don't/can't do. I have a very left wing point of view on migration, and with the ongoing climate change, people are either going to have to adopt these views too, or literally "build the wall" because large swaths of Earth aren't going to be suitable for human inhabitation by the end of the century, if not sooner, whether it's the Caribbean and Golden Triangle, Bangladesh and Micronesia, or the Gulf States.
Regarding the racism, I sympathize as I'm in an interracial, cultural, and lingual (my husband doesn't speak English) gay marriage myself, and there are large parts of North America that wouldn't be comfortable living for us. Here it's less of an issue, not that homophobia and racism don't exist, it's just different than American racism. While we "look" straight, it's clear my husband is mestizo and doesn't speak English, and that's enough for him to be told to "Go back to Mexico" by some Americans. When I explained this to him, he said "pero soy Argentino...", well, everything South of Texas is Mexico to backwards people. Argentina is by no means a panacea, the racism and homophobia are less loud and proud, while still present.
For the sake of full disclosure, I don't have a dog in the fight between Democrats and Republicans, I'm an independent not because I'm a centrist, but because I suppose I would be called a Marxist by both parties, and they wouldn't necessarily be wrong, though I prefer to call myself a leftist.
That being said, I agree they're both evil, but for different reasons. I loathe the Republicans because they're basically Dixiecrats, and that's the antithesis of my beliefs, and I loathe the Democrats because every chance they've been given to make life better for the average American they've chose to help themselves and donors instead, constantly fail to deliver the things the campaign on, and all the while they pretend to be morally superior to Republicans. Donald Trump was president because they chosen god damn Hillary to run against him.
Both Republicans and Democrats act like so much has changed now that Biden is president and it hasn't. Do I prefer Joe Biden as president over Trump? Sure, but the same way I prefer being stabbed over being shot. Life continues to get increasingly difficult for the majority of Americans, and looking at either of these two senile sexual predators for a solution is a fruitless endeavor.
