The longer the debate about health care reform goes on, the more likely we are to hear from idiots like Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., about how lucky Cubans are that Fidel Castro brought them health care reform and other glories of the revolution more than 50 years ago.
Which, I am sure, is news to the millions of Cubans who have fled the island, and those unfortunate to be stuck behind paying the consequences of that revolution.
At a recent town hall in her district, Watson advised that we go to Cuba to see what "Fidel Castro put in place," extending her admiration of the Cuban health care system to a blanket approval of everything Castro and his dictatorship have brought to Cuba.
Well, congresswoman, I don't have to go down to Cuba to see what he put in place.
I don't have to go to Cuba to understand the economic mismanagement and outright theft by a communist dictatorship that has left most Cubans hungry and with barely a roof over their heads.
I don't have to go to Cuba to understand the security apparatus that the communist dictatorship put in place that has citizens spying on each other, even their own family members, so that the dictatorship can stay in power.
I don't have to go Cuba to understand that the communist dictatorship represses all basic human rights for the sake of its own power, and how if any Cuban dares challenge it, they bring on themselves harassment, threats and possible imprisonment in the worst thing Fidel Castro put in place, a gulag where his regime sends its opponents to be tortured, to be silenced, to be forgotten.
You could ask Oscar Biscet, Darsi Ferrer, Normando Hernandez, Antonio Diaz or any other Cuban whose name is listed on the right side of this blog, about what Castro has meant for Cuba. But wait, you can't, because they have been imprisoned, because they understand too well what Castro put in place, and had the courage to try to change it.
It is inaccurate, and too kind, to call you an "idiot."
You are nothing but a shill for Castro and the evils he has committed against the Cuban people, and all of humanity, for more than 50 years. In a Congress where there are many examples of mediocrity, you may be the worst, and not just because you failed history, but for how you applaud one of the great tyrants, one of the great monsters of our time.
You have no moral stature to lead. In fact, I am certain your kind, which sees nothing wrong in applauding evil and encouraging others to do the same, would be much more comfortable in the halls of power in Havana.
So the next time you go to Cuba to see Castro's latest "gift" to Cuba, do us all a favor and stay there.
Just don't forget to your toilet paper.
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