These people love revolutions, don’t they? What they don’t love are the victims of those revolutions.
The left will always live in the 1960s. The latest episode of the story is another group of socialists travelling to Cuba to show their support for the Cuban revolution. These people love revolutions, don’t they? What they don’t love are the victims of those revolutions.
This is the story:
The Democratic Socialists of America announced that 20 DSA members will join an international group of humanitarians, the so-called Nuestra América Convoy, which says it is delivering critical aid to Cuba amid an economic and energy crisis caused by America’s blockade of fuel, flights, and other essential supplies… It has issued an open letter signed by celebrities like Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, and Susan Sarandon, calling for the administration to “treat Cuba with equality and respect” and “let Cuba live.” … With 89 percent of Cubans reportedly living in poverty, the Communist regime has a chokehold on food and energy distribution.
Of course, they blame the US embargo. Yes, the darn embargo! What else?
The problem is that Europe, China, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada are not boycotting Cuba. That’s a big chunk of the world’s economy that did not join the embargo. Why aren’t those countries doing business with Cuba? What’s stopping them? Not the US embargo. Why aren’t these countries building power plants in Cuba to solve the energy problem?
The answer may be that Cuba does not repay its debts, and the Castro regime has grown used to living off subsidies. Another problem may be that the Castro regime killed the middle class that would buy Chinese cars, Brazilian radios, Italian shoes, etc. There is no consumer market in Cuba as there was before what they call the revolution.
So, the socialists will go to Cuba, cheer the corrupt regime, probably meet with a few Cubans suffering under the US embargo, and fly back to their comfortable homes in the US. The Cubans they leave behind won’t be so lucky. They won’t have lights tonight, or who knows what food is available in the markets.
To say the least, these people are as foolish today as they were in the past when they went sugar cane cutting or cheered one of Fidel’s speeches. Again, the socialists get to leave Cuba, but the Cubans don’t.
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