Now, can I get you to admit that a lot of folk's lives were improved by the Cuban revolution?
Improved? By what standards?
You can't split the topic of freedom away from this question. It is NOT a separate subject.
You can make an excellent case that the descendants of the slaves hauled over from Africa now live a vastly better life than the descendants of those left behind. Does this justify slavery?
As for people being "better off" now under Castro, to really make the point that Castro had anything to do with that, you would have to look at other similar nations not under a dictatorship and track their progress and the lives of their citizens since the time of the Cuban revolution. Taking something from level one to level four isn't very impressive if everyone else has gone to level eight.
It's been almost fifty years. You have no idea what Cuba would be like today if the communists hadn't taken over and frozen that society where it is.
Current Events » in reply to freedom is a new and separate topic from what we were discussing and what your right-wing spinmeister was pitching
No. It isn't.
The whole thread (37 posts)
- Castro is in big trouble now - Cuba has oil
- Our neo-cons liked Batista even without oil.
- Do think that Castro is better than Batista?
- Our lefties don't mind Castro oppressing, jailing and killing tens of thousands of his own people
- can you link me to a supporting thread? (n/t)
- Really? You seem to be informed, but are going to ask for links showing Castro is a tyrant?
- Next: alcaray wants links showing Republicans like tax cuts. (n/t)
- re: I can think of 'a' good thread... make that actual people/familIES. (n/t)
- re: I can think of 'a' good thread... make that actual people/familIES.
- According to the LEFT, tyranny is only real when right-wing tyrants are involved. (n/t)
- can you link me to a supporting thread? (n/t)
- Oh come on
- re: Castro is in big trouble now - Cuba has oil
- Old news.
- Our neo-cons liked Batista even without oil.