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Bernie Sanders Misleading Narrative on Communist Cuba
Townhall ^ | February 25, 2020 | John R. Lott, Jr

Posted on 02/26/2020 4:23:31 PM PST by rogerantone1

Sanders can’t acknowledge it, but the push in communist countries to make sure that everyone could read had a dark side -- the literacy programs were a massive indoctrination effort.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; communism; cprc; cuba; marxists; nkorea; northkorea

1 posted on 02/26/2020 4:23:31 PM PST by rogerantone1
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Bernie: Literacy is wonderful. You get to read the books of Karl Marx, Mao and all the great socialist thinkers.

Reporter: But isn’t that lopsided?

Bernie: Look, we have to acknowledge the truth — literacy is a good thing.

Reporter: Well, Hitler loved his dogs, isn’t that a good thing too? Are you going to say there was some good to Hitler?

Bernie: No, Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.

Reporter: But he loved his dogs. We have to acknowledge the truth and give him credit.

Bernie: My friend, you need some re-education. I can sign you up for a reading coarse. Police take him away.


2 posted on 02/26/2020 4:36:05 PM PST by BEJ
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Keep talking up Cubar, Bernie, you just lost Florida.

And whatever you do keep talking about banning fracking. And coal, don't forget coal. That's a whole lotta states.

3 posted on 02/26/2020 4:41:41 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Literacy programs and education for the poorer members of society were present in Cuba long before Fidel Castro took power. Like leftists everywhere Castro and his fellow travelers like Bernie Sanders lied and took credit for what capitalist Cuba accomplished before they took over.

Why do you think Barack Obama and his supporters claim he was responsible for the success of the Trump economy?

4 posted on 02/26/2020 4:48:31 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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massive indoctrination

Isn’t that precisely why the Left likes Cuba? I associated with a lot of Cuba lovers in the 70s. It was all about educating people to THINK THE CORRECT THOUGHTS.


5 posted on 02/26/2020 5:04:34 PM PST by spintreebob
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6 posted on 02/26/2020 5:06:13 PM PST by poconopundit (Joe Biden has long been the Senate's court jester. He's 24/7 malarkey and more corrupt than Hunter.)
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very difficult for me to listen to any of this moronic Communist’s bullcrap about Castro. Inasmuch as a close colleague (a thoracic surgeon, who passed from old age a decade ago) witnessed first hand, his father having his brains blown out by a smiling Che Guevara-— yes... that Che’. The kind of people Sanders surrounds himself with who pride themselves on their “superior” intellect and willingness to commit wholesale murder justified by the writings of a fat, smelly German jew-ish “writer” most of whose family suicided out of the desperation he left them to. For, the greater communal good— until “enough” have been slaughtered. Modus operandi for every socialist/communist state ever formed. RIP dear friend— they never got your firearms... and you did use them on Camilo and Raul (the paedophile’s) thugs. Basta Ya!


7 posted on 02/26/2020 5:41:57 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Bump


8 posted on 02/26/2020 5:42:34 PM PST by foreverfree
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9 posted on 02/26/2020 5:57:36 PM PST by 4Liberty (NEW RULES. --- Dan Bongino)
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I love running into people wearing Che t-shirts. I look at them disapprovingly and ask them why they are in favor of murdering gays.

Much fun is had by all.

10 posted on 02/26/2020 6:01:37 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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“I look at them disapprovingly and ask them why they are in favor of murdering gays.”

And blacks. Che hated blacks.

L


11 posted on 02/26/2020 6:08:11 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I had forgotten that. He was a reprehensible little child of privilege.
12 posted on 02/26/2020 6:12:29 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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Bull Shit Bernie actually believes the crap he spews.
The scary thing is how many idiots there are who believe him.


13 posted on 02/26/2020 7:38:48 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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Look at Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. They discouraged literacy so that even if you had glasses you would be singled out for execution since being educated. Later that was revised so reading was in fact encouraged to indoctrinate the brainwashed children--taken from parents-- to follow Angka Loeu (The Supreme Leader, Brother Number One = Pol Pot). Horrid crimes. (I was an after the fact eyewitness down there)

Then there is North Korea. 10 xs WORSE than Cuba. With an effective literacy rate there now 100% by all international documentation and investigations. Anybody who would EVER stick up for these pieces of shit Communist countries or give them a pass for any reason, let alone go there, has no business being anywhere near the White House as President. NO EXCEPTIONS.

14 posted on 02/26/2020 9:22:38 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.)
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Damn right! Because they wore glasses-— executed. Another friend survived the Khmer Rouge re-education camps, having been stranded as a graduate medical school intern in Saigon— when Kissinger left everybody, and the US Left faked the entire bullcrap such that the then pelousis voted zero money— they being once again enablers of their commie pals.

He had nothing,no ID,black pajamas,and escaped to somehow steal onto a junk to Japan. From there to California— where the 7th Day Adventists took him in,and noted he had rather well learned medical skills as a phlebotomist! He re-attained his medical training through rigorous testing- passing with exceptional, and came to internal medicine practice, until his recent death. Having a bad Monday— never could if I thought about what he went through. Truth, which Leninist a@@holes like Sanders and his banker/enablers like Bloomberg— will lie cheat and steal to cover forever. Not anymore. Not ever.


15 posted on 02/27/2020 7:45:37 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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I cannot countenance any leader, Dem or Republican, who coddles communist dictators and/or goes to meet them and kowtow just be used for PR fodder and get nothing in return. Naive saps. In BOTH parties. You cannot trust Communists. Never. Socialist regimes too


16 posted on 02/29/2020 3:23:28 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.)
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I’d like to punch them but I restrain myself.


17 posted on 02/29/2020 3:25:57 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.)
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Punching is fun but changes no minds.

Most of them are skulls full of mush who have no original thoughts in their dear little heads. Holding them to their own stated values tends to jolt a few of them into reality.

And one less that I might have some day have to deal with is a good thing.

18 posted on 02/29/2020 8:15:47 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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