One of the greatest ideological achievements of liberalism is as you say to make democracy synonymous with their

Oftentimes especially in the US very anti-democratic process. I think it was

Julius Nair air who said that the United States is a one-party state but with typical American extravagance

They have two of them and it very much feels

Like that, but this is like apparently when Obama went to have an at it and met with

Rauald Castro. What was it 2016 March 2016? I think

Obama said something like why don't you have two parties and you know, why don't you allow other parties and he said

Well, why don't you and

Obama said well, we do that's we have the Democrats and the Republicans and he said come on that's like me and Fidel having our own

That's great. It was spot on spot on

Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft radio on today's episode

I have on the one and only Helen Yaffee to talk about her newest book we are Cuba

It's really a discussion focusing on that period after the Soviet collapse and how the Cubans and their economy

Were able to keep it going in the wake of that some of the reforms since then the reforms in particular Rauald Castro in 2007

Etc, but we cover so much fascinating stuff including you know stories that she tells

Of Cuban history that I myself didn't even know somebody who I consider myself to be pretty well read on Cuban history

And she's just a true fountain of wisdom on Cuban history and Cuban politics and you know

One thing that really becomes clear in this episode is

Indirect contradiction to this idea that America likes to spout and its allies that Cuba is this anti-democratic totalitarian system

It becomes incredibly clear in this episode that Cuba is infinitely more democratic in every conceivable way than anything

And American has ever experienced and I stand by that claim

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