Cuba Has Not Been A Bad Neighbor Or a Threat To the US -- Ever. There Is No Cuban Taint.

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131. That may be true and deplorable, but it does

present an obstacle for Sanders in the general if he is the nominee, does it not? Republican retirees, Republicans of Cuban descent.

As for Cuba never harming the US, there was that little dust-up over missles in 1962. Yes, I know the Soviets were behind it. I know it was a reaction to the Bay of Pigs. And I know that the US drove Cuba into the arms of tge Soviets with our support for Batista and refusal to acknowledge Cuban independence from American influence.

Most Cubans have better educations and health care now than they did under Batista. No civil liberties, but better material lives than before, except the wealthy landowners who fled to the US.

So what does all this mean regarding Sanders as a "Democratic Socialist" candidate?

It means that he would not win FL in the general because Cubans there will not vote for him. Neither will Republican retirees.

They are not the only people in the general who would not vote for Sanders.

I have read and heard the claims that his "Democratic Socialism" is the same as the FDR programs and the northern European countries. But that does not seem to be the case. FDR was a capitalist and never claimed otherwise. He created social programs to aid the victims of the Depression and promoted regulations to protect and preserve the capitalist system. At most, he could be called a Social Democrat. And that is what the capitalist countries of northern Europe call themselves --
capitalist Social Democrats.

Warren makes a distinction in terms. She rejects the socialist term for herself and says she is a capitalist who wants reforms. Her programs would save capitalism from monopolistic corporations and the crooked oligarchs who profit from them.