The culture of the Democratic Party is a function of the moral fashions of gentry liberals. On the faculty, it is status lowering to make explicit reference to the crimes of Communist regimes and Communist movements. Thinking Communism horrid is characteristic of ordinary people. What is the function of intellectuals, but to tell us that things are not as ordinary people see them?

In my limited experience, partisan Democrats who dislike Sanders avoid any references to his known affection for Trotskyist literature and his late Soviet political tourism. Or, not so late Soviet. His brief sojourn in Israel in 1963 was spent at a kibbutz run by the United Workers Party (aka Mapam). Mapam’s general line evolved some over the years of it’s existence. At the time of their formation, they differed from the Communist Party in their ardent Zionism. After about 1955, their Soviet sympathies gradually dissipated; they were still quite Red in 1963.

https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/6/755/5035051

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/27/democrats-block-sanders-castro-resolution/

By a vote of 224-189 that fell along party lines, the House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block a resolution that not only condemned numerous human rights abuses that took place under the Castro regime, but also condemned recent instances where Sanders refused to fully denounce the late Fidel Castro’s dictatorial rule over Cuba.

Continuing in the picture is worth a thousand words department, here is the first in a series of photos on the decrepitude of Havana’s buildings. Havana is Collapsing – A Photo Essay, Part 1 of 4. I am reminded of photos of GDR-era East Berlin, which at least had the excuse that the Allies had bombed it into oblivion. For Havana, in effect, the Castro brothers bombed it into oblivion.

Here are some pictures illustrating what health care for ordinary Cubans looks like.

See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/marxist-bernie-sanders-promotes-cuban-health-care-filthy-institutions-not-even-pigs-would-enter-with-photos/

And it seems to be all by malice; the stupidity part is the only thing saving us right now.

And it seems to be all by malice; the stupidity part is the only thing saving us right now.

I disagree, obviously.

He hasn’t managed to notice the murderous evil of the Cuban regime in the decades since it was established. From what I’ve read, he’s never managed to notice the monstrous evil of the Soviet Empire either, despite its collapse and exposure decades ago.

Why not, exactly? What’s keeping the wool over his eyes? Was he at his lake house that doesn’t have cable, so he missed that story?

No, bovine excrement. He thinks if you want to make omelets you need to break eggs, and if you get bogged down in explaining away the mass graves and poverty of the everyday folk you’ll never get to that awesome meal you know so well you deserve.

Evil.

No doubt, but I’m trying to keep my plaints against the GOP brief, figuring yet more elaboration about how and why the party has failed so thoroughly would be even more tedious.