Posted on 03/22/2026 6:03:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The left will always live in the 1960s. The latest episode of the story is another group of socialists travelling to Cuba to show their support for the Cuban revolution. These people love revolutions, don’t they? What they don’t love are the victims of those revolutions.
This is the story:
The Democratic Socialists of America announced that 20 DSA members will join an international group of humanitarians, the so-called Nuestra América Convoy, which says it is delivering critical aid to Cuba amid an economic and energy crisis caused by America’s blockade of fuel, flights, and other essential supplies... It has issued an open letter signed by celebrities like Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, and Susan Sarandon, calling for the administration to “treat Cuba with equality and respect” and “let Cuba live.” ... With 89 percent of Cubans reportedly living in poverty, the Communist regime has a chokehold on food and energy distribution.
Of course, they blame the US embargo. Yes, the darn embargo! What else?
The problem is that Europe, China, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada are not boycotting Cuba. That’s a big chunk of the world’s economy that did not join the embargo. Why aren’t those countries doing business with Cuba? What’s stopping them? Not the US embargo. Why aren’t these countries building power plants in Cuba to solve the energy problem?
The answer may be that Cuba does not repay its debts, and the Castro regime has grown used to living off subsidies. Another problem may be that the Castro regime killed the middle class that would buy Chinese cars, Brazilian radios, Italian shoes, etc. There is no consumer market in Cuba as there was before what they call the revolution.
So, the socialists will go to Cuba, cheer the corrupt regime, probably meet with a few Cubans suffering
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Why don’t the DSA members stay in the Cuban utopia? I don’t understand.
“It has issued an open letter signed by celebrities like Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, and Susan Sarandon, ... “
That’s hilarious. 3 people that I wouldn’t trust if they told me water was wet.
Something that annoys me over the years is how the media keeps talking about Cuba as a revolution.
I don’t know when the cutoff point for calling an oppressive dictatorship a revolution is, 5 or 10 years, maybe 20 seems ok, but still calling it that after 50 and 60, 70 years?
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“It has issued an open letter signed by celebrities like Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, and Susan Sarandon, ... “
Jane Fonda’s net worth is estimated at $200 million
Mark Ruffalo’s net worth is estimated to be $35 million
Susan Sarandon has an estimated net worth of $60 million
I would think almost $300 million dollars could go a long ways toward helping the poor Cubans.
Two of those people had really nice breasts, remember the bra scenes in Rocky Horror.
It doesn’t matter what you call them Socialist, Communist or Fascist it always end up with a form of government that ends up with the bourgeoisie running things and living high on the hog and the proletariat doing all the work and eating out of the bourgeoisie garbage cans. The Democratic Party is trying to assume the bourgeoisie roll today.
If the Socialism was so superior to capitalism, the embargo would do no harm.
Socialist Cuba would be rich shining city on the hill, with plethora of food, people living in mansions and full of last model Lamborghinis.
Poor Americans would risk their lives to sneak into Cuba, to taste the great embrace of collectivism!
“Something that annoys me over the years is how the media keeps talking about Cuba as a revolution.”
You are right. An interesting point. We had a revolution in this country long ago but the liberals don’t talk about that one very much.
It’ll be in the dark unless the rescue crew is bringing a full oil tanker.
Cuba’s power grid collapses, plunging country into darkness for the 3rd time this month
SOCIALISM IS THE NUMMBER ONE REASON FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS TO EXIST.
Socialists brains has to stages blue screen black screen.
The incompetent, unqualified mayor of Los Angeles worships Fidel Castro:
“Bass traveled to Cuba multiple times in the 1970s as part of the Venceremos Brigade, a group that organized solidarity trips with support from the Cuban government... she called Castro’s death a “great loss to the people of Cuba.”
(she’s tried to walk this back).
She let parts of Los Angeles burn to the ground via mismanagement and incompetency and parts of LA - and the metro system - make the 3rd world look clean and safe, taken over by drug-addicted, mentally ill homeless and illegal aliens, who have more rights than productive, tax-paying citizens.
Champagne Socialist Hasan Piker laughably “lead” a group of fellow traveler Socialists to Cuba to allegedly provide aid and report on the situation. He claims that he is being forced to stay in a 5 star hotel and go where his Cuban government handlers tell him to go and interview who his Cuban government handlers tell him to interview. The internet is having a field day with his joke of an “investigation.” At least he didn’t bring his poor dog to shock.
yet, even without an embargo, how many countries these days are willing to provide Cuba with enough FREE petroleum to keep the Cuban regime alive?
Yes, Cuba is always mentioned as though it is still a vigorous young revolution fighting off something, going somewhere, instead of an old stale dictatorship from the 1950s, a collapsed wasteland of a long forgotten era.
The left will always live in the 1960s.
Indeed even the hippie’s gave up the idea of communes nobody was working to bring in the food.
Democrats still clinging onto the past to refine the idea.
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