Reply #75: Look, it's kind of hairsplitting between saying "I wish Fidel was dead" [View All]

[Ken Burch]

And saying "the Cuban people would be better off if it happened sooner rather than later". What's the difference, really?

If you're not supporting the restoration of the old order in Cuba, that's relief, although you could hardly blame me for coming to that conclusion from the tone of your posts. Besides, you're a white Anglo from what would have to be an upper middle class background who lives in a rich neighborhood in California, so what's it to you what Cuba does anyway?

Not sure what you think a "moderate" position is. It seems pretty clear to me that once the exiles come back, the place would be forced to be totally and permanently right wing, with enforcement by the U.S. Marines. Why do you trust the intentions of people who are rich, white and live in Miami? Remember, these are the people whose treatment of the majority of the Cuban people caused the Revolution in the first place.

And is there a reason that you can't accept that the people of Cuba might actually, of their own volition, think they're better off under the Revolution than they were before? Who are you to say that they can't actually be trusted to mean what they say?
Teensy bit presumptuous of you, methinks.

And I regard my own position as moderate on this: I want the restoration of free speech and independent(not corporate)media. I want an end to the block committees. But I don't want capitalism, since history proves market values can never have a human face in Cuba.