Today, among other ideological clashes, there is a clear confrontation between left-wing degrowth advocates and true lovers of progress and freedom, those who know that, in general terms, economic growth brings greater wealth, greater life expectancy, and improvements and opportunities for all.
The degrowth advocates, who are ultimately just the umpteenth mutation of lifelong communists, would be happy to return to the way the world was 60 years ago. Their happiness would be for Lanzarote to be poor again, for us to drink water from puddles as our grandparents did in this thirsty land. Any new brick, road, hotel, or store is their worst nightmare. And let's not even mention how the increase in population bothers them.
Compared to those of us who propose a Lanzarote open to the world, prosperous, dynamic, cosmopolitan, that warmly welcomes those who come to earn their bread here with their honest work, the degrowth advocates are, at heart, nothing more than xenophobes and racists who only want an old-fashioned white world.
Do you know why the left is bothered by so many Latin American immigrants? Because these immigrants come from countries where left-wing dictatorships and failed democracies have failed. They know they cannot find voters among the Cubans, Venezuelans, or Argentinians who come to our land, because they have seen with their own eyes that all far-left recipes always end in disaster. So they only scrape for votes among some layers of resentful people who believe that others have come to steal their jobs and homes.
Dear degrowth friends, I'm sorry, but there's no turning back. The Lanzarote of the past is already dead. The 21st century is the great century of crossbreeding, cosmopolitanism, and the success of freedom and technology fostered by capitalism.
We are very fortunate that Hispanic American immigration is immigration that speaks our same language and brings common cultural traits. Kind, warm, friendly people with whom you can immediately empathize. Without them, Lanzarote would collapse in less than a second. Because they are the ones who are sustaining the system, who are lending a hand in many hard jobs that no one else wants to do, or simply because our birth rate is stagnant.
While many degrowth advocates live off handouts and stories, our Hispanic American brothers have come to sweat, and that's why they have my respect. Lanzarote does not belong to the one who was born here, but to the one who fights every day to build a better life in this land and thereby improve the lives of all of us. Thank you.