Saturday, February 24, 2007
The Clueless Dupes of Socialist Journal-land
Okay, it’s nice to hope for good things. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had free…everything! Of course among the “priorities” would be health care and education.
Many (most?) journalists love this idea. They love it so much that they think that other people living under a full-blown dictatorship is fair price for such noble stasis. Say you want to “help the poor, provide affordable health care and education to all” and you basically get a blank check to impose any kind of horror you please (and you don't even really have to produce the free stuff you promised!).
Anyone who has read even a few lines of my writing can see that I’m really unfond of the socialist scheme. The ideologies, the “plans,” the history of bureaucracy and blood all make me sick. How people, time and again, fall for this total crock of nonsense amazes me. But fall for it they do.
The myth-makers of international history fabrication would have us believe that pre-Castro Cuba was some hell-hole of mass-starvation and the current imposed Messiah of the Island nation had somehow not only rectified such horrors but actually produced a sort of paradise of egalitarian bliss.
Truth be told; Cuba, before the bearded one, had one of the best health care systems in all of Latin America, one of the highest literacy rates, one of the largest middle classes, and an overall economy that rivaled many European nations of the time. That was all scrapped. For what? ….(typical) “socialist revolution.”
Cuba has been a communist prison state for almost half a century now. Virtually no civil liberties, rationed food, and a distributed poverty that makes it one of the poorest countries in the world. And, why should this be a surprise? It’s a communist dictatorship stupid! Get a clue.
“A clue” is something in short supply among the pampered weasels of Journal Left-land.
Only in “mainstream” socialist propaganda could one find such jewels of observation as this:
"...'For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent'..." -- Barbera Walters
Plenty to make a sober mind nauseous, at The Media Research Center.
And…for some contrast.
