You nailed it in the first paragraph. It’s domestic politics. Cuban immigrants have a large voting bloc in a swing state.

American national politics work off of a system designed 250 years ago to maintain a balance of power between rebelling colonies trying to form a nation-state. Any amendment to the Constitution requires the agreement of either a supermajority of Congress or a supermajority of the states themselves. Neither of which are even a slight possibility in the foreseeable future.

It’s deeply ironic that the US is such a young nation, but is crippling itself based on relatively new traditions that were always designed to be changed as needed. Changing with the times was foreseen by the Founding Fathers, who are revered as gods but whose actual views are rarely analyzed in depth.

Instead, the pull toward white Christian nationalism has destroyed all the Enlightenment ideals the country was founded upon, and the freedom for each generation to choose its own path at a fundamental level, which was explicitly the Founding Fathers’ original design, has fallen victim to partisan politics.

The Dems will (hopefully) eventually realize they lost that state years ago and stop doing dumb shit for votes.

Challenge level: impossible.

The Dems STILL campaign as if it's 1992 and that the least aggressively far right Republicans and the independents to their immediate left are persuadable and therefore the key to victory.

They're not. These people would rather die than vote Dem and the VAST majority of them will either hold their noses and keep voting for the fascist party or stay home.

Meanwhile, the more the party courts absolute monsters like Dick Cheney, the more leftists that weren't going to are gonna stay at home rather than vote for people endorsed by some of the worst war criminals in the history of the US government.

Just to forestall any bad faith accusations: I'm not saying that I endorse not voting. For the record, I don't. I'm saying that that's what's going to happen if the Dem leadership and election strategists don't wake the fuck up and realize that things have changed since the rapist from Arkansas was elected over three DECADES ago.

Until now. And I'm afraid that's the point the USA government wants to make with this barbaric measure. They will only leave Cuba alone if the American people demands it in exchange of enough votes or until the USA becomes a contested hegemon or until Cuba gives away everything they've fought for decades because, shit, it sure is terrible to keep holding on. To me, it doesn't matter if they can't resist anymore and give everything away, they are already a nation of giants, but I will always hope for the people of the USA to finally take over their electoral system and start taking decisions by themselves as in a true democracy.