Thanks to +President Obama, +Cuba is in the news in the right way; at last. I listen to, and learn, the rightwing Cuba exile community in the United States raises their voices in violent protest. All we have to do is remember what Cuba was like in the 1930s, 40’s and 50s and compare that with the stance they take in our government: several of them hold important position in government and in the media. The include Sen. +Cruz, +Marko Rubio, and MSNBC talking head, +Jose Diaz-Balart and his brother in the House of Representatives among many other Cubans in government. They were born in a country that gave their ancestors sanctuary and, above all else gave them an honest shot at equal opportunity. They worked hard and succeeded but now look at what they want to use their success to achieve?
They are almost all on the fringe of the Republican Party and stand with radical Russian immigrant Ayn Rand. It is notable that Sen. Roberto Mendez is a Cuban but is a Democrat, which allows Cubans to say they are bipartisan because there is only one among them. A caveat, it is grave mistake to group them with Central and South America Latinos who for the most part are liberals. The common thread for the Cubans is hate for dictators they group under the rubric of communism. For example, Rand lived under a left-wing dictator but never lived under an extreme rightwing dictator. They have allowed their deep hate for collectivism or communism, which prevents them from embracing our successful social-capitalism form of government, which is a reasonable and moderate form of government that has been successful wherever instituted. They are like the John Burch Society of old and the Koch Brothers of current infamy and similar radical followers who want to destroy any vestige of socialism or collectivism. If successful, the result would be as disaster. Cubans forget what it meant for most of the people living in their country was like before Castro.
They forget, a dictator named Batista, was acting as a pawn of the economic elite, and ran Cuba accordingly. As a result, Cuba was a cesspool of immoral excesses, white-collar crime, and suppression of human and worker suppression. The Cuban people saw this as the excesses of the rich and didn’t like it; the Castro victory of 1959, was the result. The people wanted his form government but really had no idea of what that might be. They were openly carrying rifles and writing pro Castro slogans on the walls in remote provinces such as Oriente Province in eastern Cuba, the home of Castro brothers—I saw this as early as 1951. Cruz and Rubio, as examples of the Cuban exile community, are reacting to Castro just as the people reacted to Batista in those troubled years; hate for hate. Now the other extreme has the power to fight President Obama, the Pope, and just plain logic and they will win if “we the people” do not fight them. For example, they will corrupt congress and President Obama will never get any nominee approved to serve as ambassador to Cuba; Republican Mark Rubio is a Cuban and will be the chair of a vital committee; aren’t you glad you sat on your back sides a let them elect enough Republicans to control congress.
The tragedy is they these people bring their hate to the U.S. in the form of support for extreme right-wing conservatives without considering the consequences for our country, which is now their country; I for one do not want the economic elite, a Batista figurehead, in charge of the United States. We would see growing income disparity with increased poverty as bad as in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc. We would see increased industrial productivity but no increase in wages. We would see a closing of public schools and an increase of tuition in colleges and other influence of higher education. Anything and everything, moral or amoral, is for sale for a price. Turn on you TV; we see in our living rooms a robot making masturbations motions using a cactus as a phallic symbol while watching the backsides of a woman exercise (WINK TV. Spot, Workout).
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