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It's always blown my mind that this crowd doesn't understand what communism is. They just know they hate it.
Many of these folks are people that lost their plantation or were no longer allowed to be landlords because of communism. I feel like they have an inkling what communism is about. If all you are is a parasite, and communism weeds you out, you're right to dislike communism, and the rest of the world is right to dislike you.
My mother was never a landlord in Cuba and she hates Comunism regardless. She blames the hardships of her youth and current family on the castros, which I agree with, as they let corruption run rampart and imprison/kill their own citizenry. Hell I can't even post a picture of my cousin after he got out of forced military training (2 years ago) due to fears that the goberment may pay my family a visit.
You do not have any metrics of corruption in Cuba that can be reasonably believed, and neither does your mother, so you're just handwaving the word "corruption" around without anything to back it up.
Same thing I'd say about your side of the argument. But I am the one here with family still in Cuba and they can still tell me their hardships. You will never sway someone onto comunism when that very same word has been used to extract wealth from them for decades.
I know I can't convince your family, yet the people in Cuba majorly support the system and are aware that it's primarily the embargo's fault that people experience hardship. It's hard to get statistics about Cuba in particular, but all socialist countries experience booms in inequality if socialism ends, as it happened all over the eastern block in the 90s. The only thing separating Cuba from becoming a new Haiti is communism.
Are you suggesting that corruption wasn't an issue under Batista? Why do you blame communism but not the embargo thats designed to cripple an economy and force "hardships" for your mothers "hardships?"
No. I don't blame comunism, it's just another lie they got told to be exploited. The US embargo also has fault yes but in the end of the day one Cuban has to make the choice of how what they have gets distributed and I assure you none of the castros are skipping a meal. It's not all black or white bloody hell.
No US president has ever missed a meal either. I guess the two systems have a lot in common.
thanks for elaborating.
Who you gonna believe? Theory, or your own lyin' eyes?