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In reply to the discussion: Miami to hold 'anti-Communist' concert after Sanders defends Castro regime [View all]evertonfc
(1,713 posts)52. it dosent matter if Sanders is a communist or socialist
He will be painted as one with a billion dollar campaign if he is the nominee. Much of it is already baked in with Sanders..
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Jose Garcia
Feb 2020
OP
It's not a "red scare", how can you say that about these people. Some of them LIVED in Cuba....
George II
Feb 2020
#7
I knew several Cuban refugees back in the 1970s that I became close friends with.....
George II
Feb 2020
#13
Of course you tell yourself that. it can often be difficult to think beyond a juicy t-shirt slogan
LanternWaste
Feb 2020
#32
Sometimes the things people say about things they know little about make me shake my head.
George II
Feb 2020
#9
+++ This is the very reason why Sanders will lose Floida in the primary and General Election if he
still_one
Feb 2020
#51
I never wrote ONLY the filthy rich. Cuba was a brutal dictatorship filled with corruption and abuse.
Farmer-Rick
Feb 2020
#15
What Rummel counted in Democide were ALL deaths even those due to poverty, bad healthcare or in jail
Farmer-Rick
Feb 2020
#34
You got to remember, when people starve to death under a non-socialist regime...
ck4829
Feb 2020
#59
OMG! - people suffered badly under Batista - he turned Cuba into a police state
womanofthehills
Feb 2020
#35
Better? How? If Batista was truly "better", maybe he wouldn't have been ousted in the first place
ck4829
Feb 2020
#58
Batista and a ruined Nation is why people fled. AND I never said ONLY the filthy rich
Farmer-Rick
Feb 2020
#20
Hello - maybe they left Cuba because our embargos left them without basic necessities
womanofthehills
Feb 2020
#37
Well, the wealth fled. The US has had sanction against the country for decades.
Farmer-Rick
Feb 2020
#21
I like how a lot of those filthy rich converted cars to boats and lost weight to look hungry. n/t
zackymilly
Feb 2020
#39
So saying that Castro was great for education and health care - is a horrible thing to say
womanofthehills
Feb 2020
#40