TOWSON, Maryland, Thursday, August 31, 2017 - On CNN last night, the pro-Marxist son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who is known as Chris Cuomo or Fredo Cuomo, was taken to the proverbial woodshed by Presidential Advisor Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway (née Fitzpatrick; born January 20, 1967). Rush Limbaugh graced listeners with a replay of the butt kicking on his show today, which is where I heard it for the first time.
Limbaugh led into last night's episode by playing some previous except wherein Fredo regaled listeners with some Cuomo Family History. The shirt he was wearing in a picture he was showing was actually gifted to his father by Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Mario Cuomo then gave it to his son, together with what it meant to him, Fredo Cuomo explained that the Castro Shirt, to him, represented the promise of Marxism that all poor people will be raised up to a place where they are equal to the citizens who are economically best off.
Whether Marxism actually means that to anyone; or, in other words, whether anyone is really so utterly naive that they actually believe Marxists buy into something so noble, is not the subject here. What is at issue is whether, in reality, anyone actually believes that Marxists are noble and idealistic.
I am very idealistic. I believe, in my heart, that there are good men and good women who have noble, kind and ethical hearts and noble, kind and ethical minds. That does not mean that there are men or women, now or in the past, who are really of such a nature in a perfect way. No one - save for Christ, St. Francis, St. Stephen the Martyr, St. Polycarp, St. Gabriel, St. George, and St. Michael - is totally or even nearly totally, of a perfect nature. Even the best of men and women have demons.
This is a very philosophical subject and worthy of enlightened debate. Marxists, however, are not included in the categories of those approaching perfection, at least not those who have stood before the public.
Fidel Castro was a woeful and very evil man. He had tens of thousands of men and women put to death. He allowed thousands more to die trying to escape his Island Hell. They drowned. They were shot while passengers in shoddy "boats." They had their shoddy crafts shot out from under them in the open sea.
There are Hollywood types who actually buy into Castro's utopian jive. From time to time one or more of them appear on TV to praise the free health care available in Cuba. Like everything else about Cuba, it is all an illusion. The poor and downtrodden get downtrodden health care. His brother,Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, the current dictator and sadist in chief, is, if anything, worse. Don't think I am writing "sadist" in passing.
President Obama tried bravely to reach out to Raúl, but, for all his game efforts received little more than a slap in the face. The USA and Cuba exchanged diplomats and opened embassies in the respective capital cities. Obama hoped for a real thawing of relations, but nothing good came of it. Like I said, things between the nations are very cold, and it is all because of the belligerent and obnoxious way that Cuba and, in particular, Raúl, acted. Raúl acted like a cheap dictator. And that is what he is. It may be that things will improve after he takes his trip on the downbound train. That is a train that cannot leave soon enough.
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