Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil

[pbrower2a]

(11-27-2016, 11:20 AM)Bronsin Wrote: You know you're on the right side when the opposition is burning flags and mourning Castro.

Castro was, like most leaders, a mixture of good and evil. Driving out the American Mafia was a good thing. Installing a Scandinavian-style social welfare system but without a strong capitalist system to make it possible was sheer foolishness. Of course he was a dictator with a police state and mind-numbing propaganda. There have been leaders of pure evil, like Hitler, Pavelic, Szalasi, Rakosi, Amin, Pol Pot, Mengistu, etc. .... Castro isn't quite in that category. At least some people on the Right who have been stigmatized by the Far Left, like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, at least don't have much blood on their hands.



Marxism-Leninism, including Castroism, is in part a moral appeal -- that mass suffering for the indulgence of a few is unconscionable. That it comes with a police state, numbing propaganda, pervasive regimentation, material scarcity, and the absence of political choice discredits Marxism-Leninism, including Castro's variety. But should Donald Trump and his supporters 'give' us a police state, numbing propaganda, pervasive regimentation, material scarcity, and the absence of political choice in the name of "national greatness", then maybe there will be American exile communities elsewhere in the world in which people celebrate the death of someone who murdered American democracy.

Yes, I hope for the best, but this largely depends upon Donald Trump operating with a moral compass that he never showed during the 2016 election. Expecting a politician to become more humane and decent in office than he was in a campaign is like expecting a tiger to go vegetarian.