Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Castro? Jesus Christ, CASTRO, Bernie? [View all]Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)I don't give a FUCK if Castro helped the poor or did or did't do what he promised. I don't care that Sanders is showing his leftist 60's idealism by saying the things he's said about Castro. It doesn't matter AT ALL what any of us on the left think. This isn't fucking 1962 and holding on to some kind of 60's leftist bullshit about how great Castro could have been, or, to the constrast, how brutal the Castro regime was doesn't matter HERE in this moment.
The real issue is this: WHY THE HELL WOULD WE WILLINGLY YOKE OURSELVES TO SOMEONE WHO IS UNREPENTANT ABOUT THEIR RADICALISM AND SEEMS UNWILLING TO RECONSIDER THAT EVEN YEARS LATER???
Are we going to twist ourselves into pretzels explaining to the masses "well this is what socialism really means" or "yeah Bernie said that but let me explain why"....Jesus the moment you say the words Yeah BUT, you've lost the argument.
The vast vast majority of Americans aren't going to want to have an intellectual debate about the merits of socialism/Democratic Socialism/60's leftist ideologies they're just not...people will fall back on their deeply ingrained and brainwashed positions of "x is bad".
Some of us are trying to point out these facts to folks here but it feels like we're the ignored canaries in the coal mine. I hope I'm wrong, I pray I'm wrong, but I've seen little to convince myself that the average American is going to sit down and say "Yeah, ok that makes sense why Bernie would say nice things about Castro or Soviet Russia or Latin American dictatorships".
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden