Just a bit too much.
It amuses me that some folks still find nominal communism or even socialism to be so threatening. Really? Soviet Communism ended with Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall falling. China is now a huge, industrial powerhouse and essentially a capitalistic dictatorship. More millionaires and billionaires in China than in the U.S.
Vietnam? Making your electronics, Nike and Adidas shoes and Tommy Hillfiger clothes. Certainly much better off than it was 50 years ago.
Cuba? Ever been there? I was, last year: great people - polite, educated, kind and happy, with a thriving tourism industry and perhaps the best healthcare system in the Western world. True, it's not a wealthy nation but very little crime and no homeless, either. Castro overthrew Battista, a nasty, U.S. backed dictator, way back in 1959. 60 years of a U.S. trade embargo and it's still doing fine. Meanwhile, various Democratic Socialist nations in Europe are among the most prosperous in the world.
To my mind, the U.S. has many, more urgent issues to deal with than a "threat" of communism. Maybe start with the subversive, far-right extremists that just invaded the Capital, staged an attempted coup, threatened the V.P. with lynching and were urged on by the President. That is the very real and present threat to American democracy and way of life. And Covid, a very real and present threat to life, itself.
Back to the good ol' Sea Ray stuff.
It amuses me that some folks still find nominal communism or even socialism to be so threatening. Really? Soviet Communism ended with Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall falling. China is now a huge, industrial powerhouse and essentially a capitalistic dictatorship. More millionaires and billionaires in China than in the U.S.
Vietnam? Making your electronics, Nike and Adidas shoes and Tommy Hillfiger clothes. Certainly much better off than it was 50 years ago.
Cuba? Ever been there? I was, last year: great people - polite, educated, kind and happy, with a thriving tourism industry and perhaps the best healthcare system in the Western world. True, it's not a wealthy nation but very little crime and no homeless, either. Castro overthrew Battista, a nasty, U.S. backed dictator, way back in 1959. 60 years of a U.S. trade embargo and it's still doing fine. Meanwhile, various Democratic Socialist nations in Europe are among the most prosperous in the world.
To my mind, the U.S. has many, more urgent issues to deal with than a "threat" of communism. Maybe start with the subversive, far-right extremists that just invaded the Capital, staged an attempted coup, threatened the V.P. with lynching and were urged on by the President. That is the very real and present threat to American democracy and way of life. And Covid, a very real and present threat to life, itself.
Back to the good ol' Sea Ray stuff.