The failure of the MSM to vet white male candidates the way women and BIPOC candidates are vetted is why we are on a trajectory from the most diverse primary in US history to one between three 78yr old white men whose names begin with B. It's journalistic malpractice.
The outrage over Bernie lauding Castro should have been addressed in 2016. I wrote about it then, so it was definitely doable. And between the @60Minutes interview and the #CNNTownHall, Anderson Cooper could have Googled Castro & education and challenged Bernie again. He didn't.
This detailed piece in @TheAtlantic elucidates what Castro was doing with his "education" plan. It was 100% an indoctrination process to build support for the revolution. And it was funded by the Soviet Union--then a Communist megalith.
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My former in-laws were Communists. At a dinner party one night in 1989, my then wife's father was talking about their most recent trip to Cuba. We got into an argument over what constitutes education versus forced child labor. I was reminded of that during @60Minutes.
@60Minutes Bernie doesn't talk about his personal life. But I recognize that love affair with revolution. My father, a Communist of Bernie's generation who "softened" into Socialism. had it.I had it in college. We all had copies of various Communist tracts and the Little Red Book.
I was deeply in love with Angela Davis--older than my parents but a Communist lesbian who lit a fire in me for revolutionary change. I have never stopped being an acolyte of her work. I say all of this to contextualize Bernie. At 78, he still wants heroes: FDR, Castro, Mao.
Bernie knows their flaws. Surely he knows Mao is a mass murderer, though not of Stalin's proportions. But when one wants to see that overhaul of society that balances, that creates real equity, it is easy to blur the edges and ignore what was ineluctably wrong or even evil.
I hope folks will read this thread. 📌 I've added these details about my family as I see a lot of my father and his particular politics in Bernie and I recognize that place of passion and desire for an easy political fix that rights all the wrongs wrought by capitalism & greed.
