10-23-2021, 12:14 AM
(10-22-2021, 05:59 PM)Tenchick Wrote: Americans scream tyranny is wonderful, but Americans are unable to explain why Cubans try to escape even though Cuba has gun control and free medical care.
Being in fear of a crazy or criminal spouse who owns a firearm is not my idea of freedom, especially in a culture (there are such cultures) that strongly disparage divorce even in the event of spousal violence. Such cultures may hold that a spouse who fears such violence can simply submit enough to soften the heart of a violent person.
By the way -- the Cuban State owns the economy, so in effect the employer pays for medical care.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.