The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader said his WhatsApp chats were marked by a mood of “collective suicide”.
😂
Sounds like good news to me!
She's going to learn really quick that being Latino and rich doesn't protect you from being Latino in America.
Being rich does get you a lot of protection in america.
Far less if you're rich and a POC though. Unless you're like OJ rich.
And on top of that, Mexico rich isn't exactly America rich most of the time.
After a crushing electoral defeat in 2018, one senior opposition politician told the Financial Times how he had spent the night in a “humble home” to learn what it was like, proudly showing pictures he had taken on his mobile phone.
“After I returned to Mexico City, it struck me that perhaps my maid lived in a similar sort of home, so I showed her the photos and sure enough it turned out that her home was very similar,” he beamed.
This... this is probably the single most out-of-touch thing I'd ever rich. A rich dude took pictures of a normal house, and then bragged to his maid that he went there.
Just before Sunday’s vote, opposition leaders posted a photo of an all-male line up of their number in suits and white shirts making victory signs in the exclusive members-only Industrialists Club in Mexico City’s elite Polanco neighbourhood.
Industrialists Club? It's like they are a satire of themselves.
When the elites are scared, the people win
As I was reading, I had to check that this wasn't The Onion writers, the tone is so spot on.
Is this from a satire site I don't know about?
Incredible win for Mexico, viva Morena!!
I wish our elite suffered this much. #eattherich
One meme posted in a 35,000-strong Facebook group supporting Gálvez vowed to stop tipping waiters, donating to victims of natural disasters or giving money to people who help park your car because “they voted for Morena, so Morena should support them now”.
And they wonder why...
In recent years, many Mexicans have said they try to avoid talking politics with friends, family, and colleagues for fear of pro- and anti-Morena advocates labelling the other side snobbish or resentful.
Let's hope our country is similar, and the votes follow suit.
That's great news!
Any chance of a nonpaywall link? Thanks!
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