Castro Bootlicker Leads Democratic Pack
How is it possible that 61 years after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba we now find ourselves debating the merits of his bloody, oppressive, authoritarian regime?
Thank Bernie Sanders.
His whitewashing of Castro’s record and the failure of American public schools to actually teach history, have resulted in hordes of Sanders’ acolytes actually applauding the dictator who seized private property, tossed political opponents in prison and lined others in front of firing squads.
These millennial socialists in their Bernie T-shirts have the intellectual curiosity of bivalves.
Someone should point out to them that more than 2 million people of Cuban origin live in the US today. They’re the lucky ones. The folks who left the Caribbean island on rafts and in leaky boats through shark-infested waters, to escape a ruthless despot and the impoverished island that has the worst human rights record of any nation in the Americas.
But, literacy! Sanders exclaims. After all, Castro taught his enslaved people to read!
Yeah, Bernie. And Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time.
While claiming that he doesn’t support authoritarian governments, Sanders clearly harbors a warm spot for Fidel.
“There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate. He formed the literacy brigade," Sanders said at a South Carolina town hall meeting this weekend where he doubled down on controversial praise for the late Cuban revolutionary. "(Castro) went out and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what, I think teaching people to read and write is a good thing...The truth is the truth and that’s what happened in the first years of the Castro regime.”
You know what else happened in the first years of the Castro regime? Seizure of private property, torture and executions.
Listen to this old hippie from Vermont who’s apparently spent his entire life immersed in the teachings of Karl Marx and 60s radicals, and ask yourself what John F. Kennedy would say if he could see modern Democrats supporting a Castro bootlicker.
Shoot, would there even BE a place for Kennedy in what’s in danger of becoming a socialist party, thanks to the radical policies of Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her far-left sisters in Congress?
Kennedy’s famous “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” is an alien concept to Sanders’ gimme voters, who desire endless government freebies.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, dissidents - especially journalists, artists and activists - continue to be arbitrarily jailed or forced into exile by the government of the other Castro thug, Raul. And every year hundreds of Cubans still board rickety vessels bound for the US.
Odd. Why would they leave that communist utopia when the schools are so good?
Someone ask Bernie.
