Posted on 07/14/2021 6:51:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
After decades of oppression, the Cuban people are rising up against the island nation’s authoritarian regime. Protesting the shortages and economic ruin wrought by their leaders’ centralized mismanagement, Cubans can be seen in videos calling for freedom and even touting the American flag.
“The people are dying of hunger!” one woman in the province of Artemisa shouted during a filmed protest. “Our children are dying of hunger!”
The Cuban people’s struggle against tyranny is rightfully winning support from many prominent Democrats and Republicans alike. Regardless of personal politics or ideology, most people still view the Cuban government’s violence against protesters and the crackdown on their dissent (even reportedly shutting down the internet) as a disgusting act. And yes, that includes self-described “democratic socialists” who have praised the Cuban economic system, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders:
Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
All people have the right to protest and to live in a democratic society. I call on the Cuban government to respect opposition rights and refrain from violence. It’s also long past time to end the unilateral U.S. embargo on Cuba, which has only hurt, not helped, the Cuban people.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And maybe they do. I’m happy to give Sanders, or at least many of his supporters, the benefit of the doubt on that. But it actually doesn’t matter. Because in reality, the socialist economic system they support is fundamentally incompatible with political freedom. If implemented, it erodes personal freedom, whether the original advocates intended to do so or not.
Sorry Fossil. It applies to both.
Progressive #Progressive_Caucus
Socialist #Venezuela
Marxist #BLM
Fascist #Nazi's (Erdogan’s Turkey)
Communist #Antifa
Dictator #ComDem_Covid19_Dictators
Islamist #ISIS
Bureaucrap #the_Swamp
All Evil. All Fail.
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It applies to ALL forms of Totalitarianism.
......... Why doesn't the Conservative movement stand up and with a loud voice support the people rising up in Cuba??????????
...... The Socialist Communist Biden Regime just told them not to ... Come by Boat ..... Question: Isn't it time for the Conservative movement to rise to the next level ..... And announce that .... We will welcome true Refugees from Cuba .... Any which way they come. Then organise and create an underground movement for an over ocean railroad to support ocean bound Refugees and help them to make it to our Shores of Freedom???? Let's let our Deeds Speak Louder than Words .....
.... Heck .... This Anti American Administration has litterally opened our borders wide open and are also flying in Future Voters from South of the Border and settling them in Red States!!! .....
..... Don't Let The Communists Control The Narrative and our Future ..... We need to start fighting back like our lives depend on it .... Which actually may be the case folks ...
timing is everything
should have done this under Trump
Government control of anything will require use of force. Simply saying “ the people voted for it “ won’t compel folks to give up individual Liberty and economic freedom.
What manner of force will they use?
“To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Under Trump, Cuba would have become the 51st State...or maybe a few more.
It is actually very simple to understand.
People respond to environment.
Capitalism unleashes the best in people by rewarding hard job and invention.
Socialisms, but nature, tries to give everybody the same, so there is no incentive to work hard, to innovate, to take chances. Sooner or later, people stop working and nothing gets done.
When people stop working, the government has to revert to the other stimulus people respond. Oppression.
Every try to implement Socialisms follows the same trajectory.
Massive promises to deliver to the poor by taking from the rich.
Taking charge, sometimes actually delivering something.
Running out of the steam, out of other’s people money, people stopping to work.
Rein of terror, trying to make the system work.
Settling on the starvation, stagnation level. People learn to keep their mouth shut and follow. The ones who do not, are ruthlessly disposed off.
People eventually lose any hope, but when the situation reaches bottom, sometimes, revolution happens to get rid of the Socialisms.
I wouldnt give Sanders or any of his fanatical drug addled supporters the benefit of any doubt
he’s an angry evil hypocritical old man just like the rest of them obsessed with race and homosexuality
He does not have good intentions he and his ilk are the root of all evil
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson (in part)
IOW, they just did it wrong. We will get it right. Finally!
Indeed. Meanwhile we ourselves keep laboring under the presumption that “social” and “economic” factors can be kept separate. Cannot be separated. To be constrained in one topic necessitates being constrained in the other.
Re Sanders: rephrasing old saying: “You can take a Marxist out of a Marxist party/organization, but you can’t take Marxism out of any diehard Marxist”.
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