Earthcubed said:
Yeah, Sanders' record of apologia for communist thugs is both bad politics and morally repugnant, but Florida's reputation as a swing state in POTUS elections is wildly exaggerated. A Sanders ticket has a path to 270 without Florida. If he's the nominee he needs to go all-in on the rust belt.
There's nothing "morally repugnant" about defending the Cuban Revolution. The objective, material accomplishments of the Cuban Revolution are stupendous. Homelessness eliminated (in fact, Cubans enjoy a much higher rate of home ownership than in even the most developed Western capitalist societies). Illiteracy vanquished. The scourges of imperialist economic exploitation and landlordism ended. Where the masses of the people had previously possessed essentially no access to even the most basic healthcare, Cuba has created a system where health outcomes are on par with those of the United States on an infinitesimal fraction of the resource expenditure. The most broadly participatory political system in the world created, organized block by block, the people consulted directly on matters of fundamental policy. Cuban aid was instrumental in ending Apartheid throughout the southern third of Africa. An education system head and shoulders above any in the developing world. Cuba has become the most sustainably developed nation on earth. All of this in the face of a 60 year campaign of terror and economic violence waged against the Revolution by the United States and its proxies.
What is "morally repugnant" is that we in the United States continue to this very day to work to stymie and reverse these achievements. What is "morally repugnant" is the campaign of propaganda against Cuba that continues to justify economic terror waged against a peaceful nation. What is "morally repugnant" is that we haven't seen Cuba for what it is, a model of hope and what can be accomplished when the interests of the masses are placed above the interests of the exploiters and the owners of capital.
