I loved Fidel

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43. They (cuban runners) have ruined our country

A letter I wrote to Rubio when he and Tehran Tom Cotton became traitors to our country:

Although I signed one of the many on-line responses to your involvement in Tom Cotton's letter to Iran, the more time has passed, the more I feel that was not nearly enough.

Living in Tampa since 1974 has provided a totally immersive experience in wonderful Cuban culture and people. I've worked with and lived beside many wonderful Americans of Cuban descent over the years. The Cuban culture has thrived in Tampa for a hundred years.

But this Tampa culture is not the neo-Cuban culture from which you come, and parenthetically that of another very similar to you, Ted Cruz. The two of you have in a few short years made me come to see the neo-immigrant Cubans of South Florida as an extremely distasteful lot.

I know neither of your families ran from Castro, even though you attempted to infer or claim so, having left Cuba prior to the revolution. Regardless, you and Sen. Cruz and all the neo-immigrant Cubans of South Florida have so skewed MY country's politics to the right, with simple and singlemindedness, it can hardly be recognized.

This letter to Iran is just the final straw, right behind your position of anti-science climate change denial.

You may feel this is your country, I no longer do. My fervent hope is President Obama opening up relations with Cuba, might in the near future afford you, and Sen. Cruz, the opportunity to return to your homeland and do whatever it is you want with it. Being a left-leaning Democrat, statements like this are anathema to me, but this is what YOU have brought me to. There is no expectation of changing your opinion or course, but it's important you know these feelings are out here, if you don't already.

I'm sorry for both of us, because you disappoint me deeply.