Do liberals see Castro as a hero?

Question

Our socialists, aka democrats, support anything that favors or rewards Castro, including the only illegal immigrant that they wanted to deport- Elian Gonzalez. Most libs have trouble with the dictatorship issue but still support Castro with the dream of bringing a new "warm & fuzzy" socialism to the US, with no concept that the warm & fuzzy intentions will end up in a Castro or Stalin type reality.

Answer 1

Liberals see Castro as a god - even though he is a murdering swine who has oppressed his people for 1/2 a century.

Answer 2

No. Castro Started off as a good leader for his people, but in order to have a successful socialist setup (which has never existed outside of third century Christian communities) it requires visionary leadership. Castro has not qualified in 4 some years.

What we Do need to do however, is end the trade embargo. Democracy could actually gain hold in Cuba if we came into contact with their people- Mc Donalds and such. The embargo was supposed to weaken Castro- let's evaluate that from a business prospective, shall we? In a business, what do you do if a policy is having the oppisate effect then it was supposed to? you end it. a similar idea should apply here: if we want to weaken Cuba's government, what do you do? do you continue on the path that has strengthened it for the past 50 years? No, that would be dumb.

Another US policy hallmark is that we always negotiated with out enemies, (whether it was used for propaganda or not!) Nixon went to China, and every president in the cold war had the red phone on their desks to talk to the Soviet union. And they used it often top bring down tensions and prevent wars.

No, Castro is not a hero. But we still need to talk to him.

Answer 3

No. Socialists do. And many Democrats are socialists.

But liberals oppose Castro, just as they oppose Socialists.

It's like the split between the fiscal conservatives and the neo-conservatives. But unlike the Republican party, which still has lots of both, many liberals have bailed on the Democratic party because they consider the Democrats to be primarily socialist now -- and liberals are directly opposed to socialism.

Answer 4

You have just spout a load of garbage. Cubans were sent back all the time based on the wet foot/dry foot policy. In any event, it was not a matter of deporting Elian, it was reuniting him with his father. Isn't that supposedly a family value- keeping the "family" together? The family here who had had him, made money off of him, with a movie and books. They don't want to bring Castro's socialism here. You are ignorant.
Castro is the way he is thanks to the US and its own dealings in the island when they gouged the people there prior to his taking over. the person he replaced was just as bad if not worse than he was, but then Batista was the US flunky so his murdering people was no big deal as long as he did what the US and the Mob wanted.
They support that changes can only be made from within, it cannot be crammed down someone's throat from outside of the country.
Prior to Castro taking over, 92% of the island was illiterate.
Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba Feb 1959
Friction with the U.S. developed as the new government began expropriating property owned by major U.S. corporations, such as United Fruit and announced plans to base the compensation on the artificially low property valuations that the companies themselves had kept to a fraction of their true value so that their taxes would be negligible if not nonexistent(this is what ticked off the companies the most, getting called on their sneaky tactics)
Between 15 April and 26 April, 1959 Castro and a delegation of industrial and international representatives visited the U.S. as guests of the Press Club. Castro hired one of the best public relations firms in the United States for a charm offensive visit by Castro and his recently initiated government. He was refused a meeting with President Eisenhower to borrow funds to better the island nation. He stayed in limbo in the US for 1 month.
Rebuffed, he soon joined forces with the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev who was looking to gain a foothold in the western hemisphere.
He did a lot of horrific things in the name of politics and the 47 year embargo has not brought about regime change
BUT change can only be fomented from within.

Answer 5

You have been slapped far too many times, it seems. Why aren't you concerned with the love affair Washington has with Red China instead of worrying about useless, toothless Cuba? Hell, if we had opened up Cuba to trade and tourism like we have done with the butchers of Beijing, Cuba would be free by now.

No one supports Castro; he's a doddering old guy on his last legs who will be dead soon. But Red China is a power that has the desire and the power to challenge us, to cause us real harm.

You guys toss around socialists like you actually know what it means. This must be Rush's new buzz word. You are learning your lessons well, my friend.

Answer 6

I've never heard fellow liberals consider Castro a hero, any more than I've heard Republicans claim that Hitler was a hero. Most Americans are just people, though sometimes with slightly different values, and not idiots.

Some of the extremist idiots on YA temporarily excepted....

Answer 7

Well, Sparky. A Republican President put him in power.
Before Castro, Cuba was Americas sin city. Sort like Tijuana.
Kennedy was liberal and won the Cuban missile crisis.
No, we don't idolize Castro, but compared to the US/CIA puppet Batista, you do the math.

Answer 8

As a Cuban American born in this country, whose grandmother couldn't return in '58 despite her harsh living circumstances in this country due to the fact that she had an american born little girl who at 11 would have rather stayed with the nuns than return, I say love him or hate him... does it really matter ...lets really know what the man has done or not done for his perople as a leader not just the many who would have rather escaped deprivation than stand and die together in their home for their home.

Answer 9

This is pathetic. This isn't a question. It's an insult.

Allow me to paraphrase what you just said:

"OMG!!!111!!! liburels are teh stupidz!1!!! they r al socalists!!!! LOL!!! i bets they suport castro,and stalin. ROFLMAO!!!

Drop the stereotypes that are blinding you, and come back when you understand how to make a reasonable argument. Or you could get a job writing Republican propaganda for the 08 elections...

Answer 10

I don't know if liberals see Castro as a hero. I am moderate (if you like labels) and I don't support him. I don't support Dubya, either.

Answer 11

Do Republicans see D|CK Cheney and Adolf Bushler as their heroes?