Posted on 02/23/2020 6:49:34 PM PST by karpov
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the frontrunner for the Democrats' presidential nomination, doubled down on his support for some of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's policies, saying in an interview that aired Sunday, "it's unfair to simply say everything is bad."
Speaking to CBS News' "60 Minutes," Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, pointed to social welfare programs introduced under Castro's regime that he described as redeeming, despite the communist dictator's often repressive human-rights violations against Cubans.
"We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?" Sanders told Anderson Cooper.
Fidel Castro relinquished power to his brother, Raúl, in 2011; Fidel died in 2016.
Some Republicans jumped on Sanders' comments. "It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read & write," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted.
In a resurfaced speech given at the University of Vermont in 1986, Sanders praised the socialist policies implemented in Cuba by the Castro regime and criticized bipartisan efforts in the U.S. to tamp down on Castro's spread of communism.
While Sanders said in the new interview he "condemns" any human rights violations Castro committed, he also took aim at President Trump for his unlikely friendships with some dictators or strongman leaders, including North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin
"I do not think that Kim Jong Un is a good friend," Sanders said. "I don't trade love letters with a murdering dictator. Vladimir Putin, not a great friend of mine."
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Free healthcare when there is NO healthcare is very easy to provide!!!
Interesting? When you get replacement parts from Mexican junk yards? I guess so.
The attack signal has been given to go after Crazy Bernie.
But then Bernie's campaign manager isn't just a Fellow Traveler but also a mooselimb, and probably considered this interview as a Bernie dog whistle to all the subversives in the US.
Hushhhh!! Be patient.
True. I understand that the weather is still pretty nice.
If I had a President who would make McConnel have a vote on some of the infrastructure bills he is sitting on, I’d be fine.
I wonder what the statistics are on deaths caused by Putin (the death toll for Ukraine is over 14,000) and Rocket Man in N. Korea. Has Assad reached 200,000 yet?
Better Dead Than Red. Better Dead Reds.
Some Cubans are very happy. They all have the last name Castro.
Putin has killed tens of thousands in Syria, Chechnya (people forget how bloody that place was/is), Ukraine and maybe a few in Venezuela (He sent a detachment of “police” or something like that there in the last 6 months). Don’t forget his assassins of journalists, lawyers, protestors, etc in Russia and Europe, esp. England.
The boy has been busy.
Assad, way over 200,000.
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We have a nice military base there.
Good cigars. They’ve eradicated syphilis by pretending it no longer exists there. So if you catch a dose at a brothel there, no treatment.
What these *democratic socialists* (ie: Communists) always fail to acknowledge is that “human-rights violations” are a part and parcel of any Communist regime.
It’s a matter of human nature. There will always be dissent. With dissent there comes oppression of the dissenters. When oppression doesn’t work then it becomes persecution of dissent. When persecution doesn’t work then it becomes prosecution and imprisonment, and on and on and on until it becomes genocide.
This is the fatal flaw of Communism. It can never be *done right* because it completely goes against human nature, and nothing can ever change that.
Bernie’s right! Have you tried the Plantains?
I have a contact who travels to Cuba....Bernie’s right. It’s not bad...it’s terrible.
“...Any doubt that Bernie Sanders was a sane person and not a communist psychopath has just gone down the crapper ...”
He’s a diehard commie. Wants to see it happen here, in his lifetime, with him in charge.
He’s got the “crazy eyes”, like that freak cult leader who offed himself waiting for the comet some years ago.
bernie wants the USA to be like cuba. The majority of people p*ss poor, with the ruling party elite living high off the hog, wanting for nothing.
bammy, bernie, and the “pope” all worship at the church of cuban communism.
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