"but more modern day examples, IMO, would be George Soros, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry."
Give me a break. When did any of those three do the equivalent of taking all the food, firewood, shovels and other farm implements of the Ukrainians right before winter? Or lead the equivalent of "Cultural Revolution"? How many millions of dead Americans are George, Ted and John responsible for? What Ted may or may not have done to poor Mary Jo doesn't put him in even the same universe with Mao and Stalin. Stalin wasn't shaping a utopia, he was exercising pure power. Labels weren't important. Mao was cut from the same cloth.
Lumping Castro in with those other two is a stretch also. Under Batista, Cuba wasn't a picnic for the average Cuban. Much of Castro's popularity was due to that fact. Not that Castro is a prince, but Batista was worse. Now Castro was trying to shape a utopia, or at least a better place for his country. In that, he didn't do too bad of a job, under the circumstances. If he had organized a system that didn't depend on himself as the only source of power in Cuba, I might have a higher opinion of him. As it is, he is just another dictator. Not as brutal as many, more concerned about his country than most, but still a dictator... |
