Reply #49: An egotistical totalitarian dictator who has put his ego above the needs

[Zorra]

of the people he rules.

Cuba is not a "social democracy" in any way shape or form. It is a "personality cult" dictatorship.

Anyone who thinks Castro is a swell fella should spend some extended time with the regular folks in Cuba, not with Communist Party favorites.

There is a distinct hopelessness among the Cuban people, a melancholy, which has become almost intrinsic, because the average Cuban has no possibility of improving her/his lot in life. When someone has the slightest possibility of change, some hope, it is said that lose their "gorrion" which literally means "sparrow", but culturally may be described as "melancholy".

To be fair, Cubans are in general very well educated and they have a great health care system.

As a democratic Democrat/Green, the only thing I detest more than "communism" is fascism. Bu$h and Castro are exactly the same: Both are totalitarian dictators. Bu$h is a fascist dictator, and Castro is a "communist" dictator.

Bu$h will slam his fascist Hitleresque police/war state lid down on the people of the US if he is re-selected to the dictatorship in November. Within 4-8 years, the people of the US will be worse off than the people of Cuba.