Posted on 02/24/2020 7:03:42 PM PST by karpov
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Back in 1989, Sanders wrote, “Cuba — the one country in the entire region that has no hunger, is educating all of its children and is providing high quality, free health care — is hated with a passion by the Democrats as much as Republicans.”
Besides the moral obtuseness of arguments like this, the factual basis for such claims is dubious.
Cuba was already doing well on measures of health care and education prior to the revolution. By one estimate, Cuba’s per-capita income in 1955 was about half that of the most advanced Western countries and on par with Italy’s. By 2000, after the collapse of the Soviet Union that had provided Cuba an economic crutch for so long, the island nation’s per-capita income was half what it had been in 1955.
Cuba went from a leader in Latin America on key economic measures to a laggard by the time Castro was done with it. The Washington Post has noted that “in terms of GDP, capital formation, industrial production and key measures such as cars per person, Cuba plummeted from the top ranks to as low as 20th place.”
Bernie’s perspective on Cuba isn’t an outlier. It is characteristic of his worldview that has a sympathy for America’s enemies, at least if they are Communist or Islamist; that assumes the worst of the United States; and that opposes nearly all US military interventions as misbegotten or malign (Sanders voted for the Afghan war after the 9/11 attacks and now regrets even that vote).
Electing Sanders as commander in chief would be almost indistinguishable from putting the late radical historian Howard Zinn, or the America-loathing linguist Noam Chomsky, or the tendentious left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore in charge of American foreign policy.
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Bttt
Bernie Sanders is a national joke.
His popularity is a true testament to the way U.S. universities have indoctrinated the young, to accept the nanny-state as the secular savior.
just loves America’s enemies
I just can’t put my finger on it but it sure seems we’ve been here before....
If only it were just the universities. All of the high schools are severely infected with the commie / totalitarian / marxist / hate-capitalism disease and it has seeped downward to many middle and elementary schools throughout the country.
My sister teaches math to middle schoolers in inner city Baltimore. Every class taught to those 12 year olds is rife with PC and ultra-liberal wokeness. Even the sciences and math are infected.
Did Rich finally pull his head out his rear?
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Did Rich finally pull his head out his rear?
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No, he’ll return to his natural vampire state at the next full moon — or when the next Trump controversy flares. Best to hold a cross in each hand when reading Lowry’s columns.
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