I may go buy a big screen TV in his honor.
Posted on 11/26/2016 2:40:09 PM PST by jazusamo
Tell it like it is, Donald. What a difference! What an improvement!
AMEN!
There are plenty of leftist scumbags mourning their hero Fidel. There’s one in the White House.
Reality Check for the left in the best way possible.
Bump!
What a complete and utter idiot this writer is and he doesn’t speak for the vast majority of people his age! And this bozo isn’t even a BOOMER...his “generation”, THE WAR BABIES, was a teensy group, back then, and still are...now being lumped into our parents’ generation as well. We are neither fish nor fowl, nor good red meat, so to speak.
THEN we came to realize what Castro really was.
we had been duped!
The US is one step away from CUBA
It will take thirty years of Reagan and Trump in a row
Media and education is in the ferm grip of the left
I got the impression he and his buddies were awed but Castro and stayed that way for a number of years, maybe it was just his writing.
I was about to graduate high school in ‘59 and I remember Castro’s admiration was very short lived, he went from hero to commie really quick.
I may go buy a big screen TV in his honor.
At least 30 years and sadly, that won’t happen and can’t.
I once read a biography of Castro in my youth and what caught my attention was he ran Cuba like his private farm and the Cubans were his personal livestock to experiment on and to herd.
It reminded me of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The Revolution wiped out the most decent human things in the name of equality. The island’s Communist elite has the good life and every one else lives beneath them.
Castro’s Communist prison is run more efficiently than Venezuela. But it, too is a dead end. In the end, tyrannies burn themselves out. That’s an iron law of history.
Exactly, check my post #8.
Actually, McCain is still around.
It always takes the same thing to dissuade a stupid Marxist: being mugged. In Simon’s case (and I generally like him), it was a delayed plane. \
My feeling is he let power get to his head and pervert whatever ideals he held.
Absolute power corrupts and corrupts absolutely.
No person can be trusted not to abuse power without checks and balances.
The Cuban Revolution is an instructive lesson on what to expect when people begin destroying their own country supposedly for its own good.
Yes, and Cubans are key to getting this message across.
They understand so much better than we because they lost everything to a tyrant.
Hi, nopardons. In my hometown of left-wing liberals, several parents allowed their teenagers to go work in the canebrakes of Cuba around 67-69. Stupid then, stupid now.
I knew a man who, when young, fought in the mountains with Fidel. He never quite got over the letdown when Castro turned Communist and against the USA.
He and others naively believed every word Castro uttered.
In all the hoopla of Castro’s final meeting with the devil I have yet to read anything about the Bay of Pigs invasion.
If I recall correctly (I was a kid then), Kennedy pulled air support of the invasion at the last minute. He had a chance to prevent 50 years of oppression.
I imagine history has been rewritten since those days.
Anyone else have deeper knowledge?
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