Never forget the US left’s disgusting love affair with the Castro regime

 NY Post  . . . "It’s not easy to run a hideous dictatorship and still have fans and defenders in fashionable quarters, but the Castro dictatorship has managed it all of these decades.

"The mass, spontaneous protests that broke out all over the country last weekend are yet another sign that the Cuban government lacks all legitimacy. In Cuba, it is the government versus the people, and lo, all these years, Castro’s apologists have been with the government.

"They have romanticized Fidel Castro, the founder father of Cuba’s junta. They have swallowed its propaganda. They have made excuses for it. They have looked away from its crimes. And they have blamed America for its manifest failures." . . .

Cubans protesting communism with American flag because it's a symbol of freedom: Rep. Gimenez   fiddlesticks465:

If you ever wondered why the left despises the Star Spangled Banner, that is your answer in a nutshell. It is a universally accepted symbol of freedom, and they can't subvert it.

 

Useful idiots burn flag, chant "Death to America!"

Dear Reporters: The Capitol Riot Was Not 9/11

 

Rich Terrell

National Review  "There is a faction of the news media that seems stuck on January 6. They need to get some perspective. And political hucksters who claim that the Capitol riot was worse than the September 11 attacks deserve all the derision they get." . . .

. . . "There are three overlapping reasons why national political reporters may be inclined to excessively magnify and dwell upon January 6. One, ever since Watergate, there has been a journalistic culture among the national political You have 3 free articles remaining. > press of making reporters the hero of the story. It was not always like this;

" Robert Capa was not the story when he landed with the first wave on D-Day, and Ernie Pyle was not the story on Okinawa. But for people who spent four years comparing themselves to firefighters running toward danger whenever Trump tweeted at them, the allure of making this a story about peril to the press is irresistible. Two, of course, a lot of the Capitol Hill press corps is young — young enough that September 11 is a childhood memory and that “embedded reporter” evokes campaign coverage, not David Bloom and Michael Kelly riding to their deaths in Iraq. "

‘If You Hate the Culture War, Blame Liberals,’ Says Ex-Mother Jones Writer

Kevin Drum’s credentials as a member of the progressive Left do not seem to me to be in doubt; he wrote for Mother Jones for 12 years before going independent again. The quotation in the title of this post is the title of his new piece.

National Review

. . . "friends on the Left ever rest. They won’t say, “Well, we got what we wanted. I guess we’ll stop demanding changes for a while.” Whenever they win, they simply start a new fight.

"Kevin Drum’s credentials as a member of the progressive Left do not seem to me to be in doubt; he wrote for Mother Jones for 12 years before going independent again. The quotation in the title of this post is the title of his new piece.

 I’ve made this point many times before, and I want to make it again more loudly and more plainly today. It is not conservatives who have turned American politics into a culture war battle. It is liberals. And this shouldn’t come as a surprise: Almost by definition, liberals are the ones pushing for change while conservatives are merely responding to whatever liberals do. More specifically, progressives have been bragging publicly about pushing the Democratic Party leftward since at least 2004—and they’ve succeeded. 

Now, I’m personally happy about most of this. But that doesn’t blind me to the fact that “personally happy” means nothing in politics. What matters is what the median voter feels, and Democrats have been moving further and further away from the median voter for years:" . . .

"The charts that accompany his piece are pretty striking. Republicans have moved a little bit to the right on some things, and way to the left on same-sex marriage. Progressives keep taking huge leaps to the left on everything:" . . .

ANALYSIS: Why Does Joe Biden Want The Government To Evangelize For Vaccines?

 

Right of Center by Broc Smith.

The Door-to-Door Vaccination Salesman  

. . . "Unsurprisingly, the reaction from Republicans was swift and defiant. “How about don’t knock on my door,” said Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw. “You’re not my parents. You’re the government. Make the vaccine available, and let people be free to choose. Why is that concept so hard for the left?”

"Why indeed. Because “progressives” think they know everything and therefore make better decisions than you do. They can make you buy health insurance, make you celebrate someone else’s gender dysphoria, teach you what history to appreciate and which historical figures to hate, decide what generates your electricity, and spend your money more charitably.

Why can’t they knock on your door and kindly ask if you have a personal relationship with the COVID vaccine?

ANALYSIS: Why Does Joe Biden Want The Government To Evangelize For Vaccines?