7 Jan 2024 11:02 am
Zeets2: "So, is it your solution that the U.S. be required to trade with despotic regimes like Cuba and Venezuela and aid and support them?"Zeets2 » 06 Jan 2024, 11:32 am » wrote: ↑ So, is it your solution that the US be required to trade with despotic regimes like Cuba and Venezuela and aid and support them?
And isn't it ironic that you compared their plight to the most poorly run and most left-wing socialist cities like Detroit, Newark, and Dayton? Don't leave out the mess that liberals have made of San Francisco, Chicago, LA, NY, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, among others which you obviously support in their socialist-loving agendas!
I don't know what an attempt to require the U.S. to trade with and aid Cuba and Venezuela would look like; however, it would suffice if the U.S. would only allow other states to deal with socialist Cuba and capitalist Venezuela. That would be more than enough for Cuba to modernize its infrastructure and provide even more improvements for its people. But the U.S. won't allow for that because the enormous social gains already achieved by the Cuban Revolution serve as a threat of a good example that the U.S. cannot help but thwart.
And since Zeets2 is opposed to the U.S. trading with despotic regimes, Zeets2 needs to call for U.S. embargos against Saudi Arabia, Israel, and many other authoritarian governments the U.S. trades with.
Zeets2: "And isn't it ironic that you compared their plight to the most poorly run and most left-wing socialist cities like Detroit, Newark, and Dayton? Please don't leave out the mess that liberals have made of San Francisco, Chicago, LA, NY, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, among others that you support in their socialist-loving agendas!"
My comparison wouldn't be ironic even (if) socialism were manifested in those cities, which it is not. Beyond the scope of the capitalist juggernaut that envelopes the globe, what occurs in the U.S. and Cuba are separate and distinct from one another. The ever-decaying conditions within cities like Detroit are wholly the result of the deindustrialization that has come about in the wake of many capitalists transferring their industrial capacity overseas. The devastating socioeconomic effects of deindustrialization and capitalism are felt by Democratic and Republican mayors, who are mainly powerless to counter those pathologies.
Per the assertion that I support Democratic mayors, I haven't voted in favor of a Democratic politician since 1984, for like their Republican "counterparts," they are pro-capitalist politicians, while I am a Marxist, specifically a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. Indeed, Zeets2 and all other pro-capitalists share more in common with Democratic politicians than I do.
Good day.
"Harvey Mushman"