9 Jan 2024 8:18 am
Zeets2 » 07 Jan 2024, 1:09 pm » wrote: ↑ Well, Harvey, I think it's time you took off those rose-colored glasses with which you envision Castro's revolution, where you apparently see non-existent "enormous social gains" that you think were a "good example" that the US should follow. And you seem to believe that the US did not have just cause to cease diplomatic relations with Cuba, regardless of their kidnapping of Americans, their confiscation of foreign assets, his refusal to allow Cuba to hold new elections as he promised, and despite his torture and executions of 600 people from the Batista regime. Yet you still think the US wasn't justified by our response despite our being one of the first to publicly recognize the Castro government as legitimate, which gave them every opportunity to follow the path of the free market and capitalism, and you can't understand why we broke diplomatic ties with him.
Funniest of all, you see no comparison whatsoever to the devastating condition of cities like San Francisco, Chicago, LA, Philly, Newark, Detroit, and Baltimore, all who have held a stranglehold on state and local governments that continually promote every radical socialist policy that comes down the pike.
You may not support the DNC, but you can't deny that their policies are far more socialistic than any the GOP ever supports, AND that they've failed miserably in every one of those cities. One day I may provide you with the socialist reasons that they became deindustrialized, and it was NOT due to their following of capitalism, and were NOT incapable of counteracting those socialist pathologies.
And a good day to you too, sir.
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Zeets2: "[A]nd you can't understand why we broke diplomatic ties with [Castro]."
To reiterate, never have I harbored such a lack of understanding.
Zeets2: "Funniest of all, you see no comparison whatsoever to the devastating condition of cities like San Francisco, Chicago, LA, Philly, Newark, Detroit, and Baltimore, all of which have held a stranglehold on state and local governments that continually promote every radical socialist policy that comes down the pike.
"You may not support the DNC, but you can't deny that their policies are far more socialistic than any the GOP ever supports AND that they've failed miserably in every one of those cities. One day, I may provide you with the socialist reasons that they became deindustrialized, and it was NOT due to their following of capitalism. They were NOT incapable of counteracting those socialist pathologies."
If any American politician were socialists, I would support them rhetorically and economically. But no American politician, including the social democrats Bernard Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are socialists. The nature of the policies and practices carried out by Democratic mayors that reactionaries oppose is not socialist. Socialism suggests a complete change in socioeconomic relations, not piecemeal legislation borne of bourgeois governments consisting of pro-capitalist Republican politicians and pro-capitalist Democratic politicians.
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