See, this is precisely where you lose the credibility you so obviously crave.
To feel Right [in both the sense of anti-Left and your sense of anti-Wrong] you feel the need to demonise those who have put enough thought into these questions to realise that we are all just folks, that no system run by human beings ever has been or ever could be perfect, that we've all got lots of room for improvement, always have, always will.
So - if i don't goose-step to the letter of your party line, i'm a 'red'.
Well i have my own box of Crayolas, thanks anyway. Ain't no black or white, ain't no red ... just an enormous collection of shades of grey ... the darker shades of which are used to depict those who seek power over their fellows, i.e. the Castros and Batistas and Mas Canosas et cetera ... no matter their intended colour of their rhetoric ... all those fine words of liberty and justice are cheap ... hey, i've got a dictionary too, lol ... and a bible - 'By their works ye shall know them'.
The very darkest of greys apply imho to thieves of children.
As for your argument that Eli n made in his maturity a conscious decision to emigrate from Cuba - well, how ridiculous ... he was at the time five years of age, he was taken by his mother who had chosen to follow a criminal boyfriend into an unseaworthy boat. He has a single surviving parent, and the fact that you do not agree with that parent's politics is not sufficient reason to hold the boy captive as a tool of a propaganda industry of the side with whom you do agree. Sorry.
Mi hijo
all the rest is BS. |
