Patria y Libertad
Cuba is the country to which I would move if I really did want a government that persecuted those who engaged in homosexual acts. Now that there is no longer an American Administration full of people who have never recanted their Trotskyism, President Obama should lift the entire blockade, which only attracts sympathy to this regime that does not deserve it. He has already shown his indifference towards the Israel Lobby that so damages American (and Israeli) interests. So he should have no problem against the anti-American activities of vastly less numerous Cuban pretend-exiles, who are in fact economic migrants and free to go back any time they like. And who, far from being conservative, merely wish to restore the Cuba that existed before 1959, a giant drug den and brothel for the American super-rich.
So your ignorance of Cuba is even more profound than your ignorance of the US. To equate Cuban refugees with economic migrants is on a par with your despicable attack on the Tibetans.
Of course they are economic migrants, and not even particularly nice economic migrants. They don’t want a free Cuba. They certainly don’t want a conservative one. They want the one that they or their families ran before 1959. And there was nothing free or conservative about that.
People who do want a free and conservative Cuba should have nothing to do with them and with what is in any case, even from their own point of view, their counterproductive policy of stirring up sympathy for the present regime by means of the blockade.
With an American sovereign base on Cuba, how is that regime still there a generation after the fall of the Soviet Union? Surely not because, whatever else it may be, it is no threat whatever to the United States?
It is clear that too many Americans have warped ideas of the world based on the fact that the US has always absorbed the bourgeois émigrés of countries that undergo revolutions. And not even to mention the fact that many of the Cold War refugees from East Europe were Nazi collaborators or combatants….
“And who, far from being conservative, merely wish to restore the Cuba that existed before 1959, a giant drug den and brothel for the American super-rich.”
Kinda reminds me of Miami.
I completely oppose our Cuba policy, but the Batista era gets a bad rap. The high literacy rates & good health bragged about now existed back then as well. It received immigrants from first-world countries in Europe rather than Haitian boat people blown off course. It was actually more unionized than the U.S. Gambling was a fairly small fraction of its foreign receipts, and the country of Vegas can hardly hold itself superior.
The Cubans who arrived after 1959 were driven out in part for possessing property. Try not to hold it against them. Speaking of economics, they revived neighborhoods and whole cities, creating wealth where there had been slums. They tend to vote for the GOP because they abhor welfare and because they know first hand what living under a Communist system is like.
David, do you know the difference between an blockade and an embargo? Apparently not. But that doesn’t keep you from expressing an ill-informed opinion does it?
Thomas, most of the emigres escaping Hitler worked very hard to create the Wiemar America we live in now. Soon, when this place descends into some sort of hell, their descendants will be off to another gullible host country.
T.O.M.,
Unfortunately I feel you are right about the hell being forged in my ancestral homeland of some 350 yrs. I don’t think it is unstoppable or that Hitler refugees are chiefly to blame, but those driving the country into the ground don’t tend to have long-standing American roots.