The American Spectator

Can you say 2 million incarcerated? As the largest proportion of a population anywhere on earth, including Cuba?

Oh, you might argue that Cuba’s are political prisoners, but some may argue that the U.S. War on Drugs is distinctly political at its core with prisoners who are 70% black, though only representing some 13% of the total population.

I’m really glad that I was able to see Cuba a few years ago. I will be happy for the people when their lives get easier, but I will be sad to see the country’s natural beauty destroyed as it becomes one gigantic spring break haven. I expect that the high literacy rate and the health care coverage rate and many other good things will be lost as well.

I could provide more, but you get the point by now. Socialism = good, USA = bad.

These were by no means all of the thoughts about Castro expressed on these sites. There were thoughtful criticisms of Castro’s brutality and human rights abuses. But there were far too many people who apologized for or excused Castro’s thuggery on the grounds that it either produced good socialism or checked American capitalism and imperialism.

It is always disconcerting to see just how many people consider oppression an acceptable tool for realizing hoped-for domestic policy goals.