Fun and Tyranny on a Cuban Excursion

Cuba is charming if you look straight ahead and down. Using subversive free will to turn one’s head might alert visitors to conditions their guides don’t want them to see, and you don’t want to be a typically rude American. Respect cultural traditions by not observing what’s happening. Make sure to also avoid pointing out how the despotic holdout represents everything monstrous about the emblematic failed ideology. That’d negate the trip’s purpose, anyway.

Hotel patrons are the only ones on the island having a good time. I’m sure communists would never have a sinister secret agenda. But it sure seems interesting that their fans will return to their non-impoverished nations and rave about how incredible this workers’ paradise is. The only members of the category they encounter are hotel staff and barkeeps. As in capitalist hellholes, they’re pleasant to customers as part of their jobs. In their case, the fear more than getting fired.

I’m not saying Cuba-loving leftists are ignorant. But they don’t realize that everyone who lives on their favorite island and hasn’t befriended the comically ridiculous despots in charge is suffering. The inability to grasp that tourists get special treatment is as ludicrous as not grasping that guaranteeing everyone everything is the surest way to make it all suck.

People who still believe communism works in 2026 might just be dim enough to not grasp that they’re being used. Using gullible visitors as unwitting propaganda tools seems unnecessary when they’d do so voluntarily. But their willingness leaves their acting skills to chance. It’s better to convince them everywhere is as pleasant as the resort than let them see life past the perimeter and try to convince America that it’s super.

Reporting back how glamorous Havana’s resorts are has been helpful in its way. Everyone sensible realize why commies lie so blatantly, namely because their devotees lustily believe the world’s most manifest falsehoods. Universal health care is just a boat ride away.

Accepting lies instead of food is an unfulfilling consolation prize. Commies suck at advertising not just because they’re awful at everything. Lousy sellers don’t realize they’re supposed to have a good product first. It’s unsurprising yet disappointing that they believe commerce’s entirely is tricking dupes into squandering decadent payments for toil on bad consumer goods.

You think they couldn’t possibly believe their experience is genuine. Then you check what they believe. Anyone who has been on this planet for more than a day should be able to determine which parts prosper and suffer. Those blaming free exchange despite experience don’t see that they’re being used. Of course, all-time dupes believe Cuba is functioning well in the first place, so they’re not superb at perception.

You’d think propaganda represented a waste of time until you see who falls for it. Enthusiasts really believe in a show, which is what communism is. It’s one where you can’t look at the actual performance. The magician performs a trick with no saw, box, or person in it.

The convenient chance to lie on behalf of a diabolical failed regime is one some apparently can’t decline. American participants can kvetch about their home. Blaming the country that points out how rotten Cuba is brings to mind demonizing police for fighting back against crime. They do that, too.

It’s an amiable gift to keep them from trading with the rotten United States. Blaming the embargo for the island’s dejected morale is like claiming prison made a murderer evil. The glorious people’s outpost shouldn’t want to engage in stupid capitalism, anyway. Importing items from other countries means both parties benefit, and that reeks of free markets. They don’t need our fancy pocket phones or running automobiles.

Enthusiastic pinkos enjoy the lack of traffic travel. They don’t seem to have grasped that they’re the only ones who go from America to Cuba. It’s the same reason getting a U-Haul in California is as hard as affording taxes while the Florida market is as glutted as Funko Pop shelves. The thoroughly oblivious don’t even notice they’re flying and not sailing makeshift rafts in a desperate attempt to escape tyranny’s yoke.

Oh, and they also got to leave. The truly dedicated should be shredding their passports rather then heading back to a monstrous kingdom with natural rights and private gun ownership. I just want to help them fight hypocrisy as well as exploitation. Virtuous smugglers should help illegal immigrants escape America after they made the regrettable decision to enter a horrid place with a Second Amendment and no universal insurance.

The emblematic example of state failures apparently isn’t obvious enough. Believing otherwise requires either lying or ignorance. That brings us to everything they hold.

The only thing worse than thinking Castro knew what he’d be doing before taking power is thinking he did fine work. The sole person with a job where he did anything would’ve have been better if he were unemployed. Fidel’s ghost is still suckering the maliciously foolish in an era where voters elected a freaking socialist as New York City’s mayor. Explaining in 2026 why government controlling everything doesn’t mean they’re helping people shows how even evidence won’t deter to regrettably committed.

Getting used is clearly something fans of Cuba enjoy. Every fan is open about enjoying humiliation. Demented freaks can’t keep their fetishes to themselves don’t understand anything about polite society. Believing communism works is as perverse as it gets. There’s one last island where sickos can still parade.