Quote of the Day
Fidel Castro was a murderous communist dictator. His legacy is not heroic. It is a legacy of firing squads, political prisoners, censorship, religious persecution, stolen property, poverty, rationing, and the forced exile of millions of Cubans.
No one can lecture me about socialism or communism. Many of us, including me, fled Fidel Castro’s murderous, narco-trafficking, socialist and communist dictatorship. We did not learn about that ideology from books or political speeches. We lived it, suffered under it, and know exactly where it leads.
Dariel Fernandez
Miami-Dade County Tax Collector
August 21, 2026
DSA faces heat over praise for Fidel Castro | National | keysnews.com
From the same article, “Fernandez was born in Cuba and emigrated to the U.S.”
Contrast Fernandez’s lived experience of living under the Castro regime compared to what the DSA has to say about him:
Today is the centenary of Fidel Castro, and the Democratic Socialists of America recognize the historic significance of both this day and the man. Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination for the Global South. DSA has a long history of solidarity with the Cuban people, their revolution, and their self-determination. We choose this historic day to recommit ourselves to acting in solidarity with the Cuban people and to starkly opposing Marco Rubio’s genocidal war against the Cuban people and US imperialism writ large.
A case can be made that the DSA knows their policies are a glossy sales brochure for a product they know is, at best, a lemon. But they aspire to be in control of the stolen property, rationing, censorship, and firing squads.
Prepare appropriately.
I find it interesting that communists, by and large, are spoiled rich kids of rich parents, kids who have never had a real job and most likely never will.
They are the types who answer “Where does food come from?” with “The store.”
Life’s “necessities” are all assumed. For them, the “necessities” they think about are social standing and other such frivolities.
Actual worry about “how things work” or even “IF things work” is not something most of them ever have to think about.
DSA has a long history of solidarity with the Cuban people, their revolution, and their self-determination.
Until and unless the Cuban people overthrow the Castros, take back their government, and restore their capitalistic economy. Then the DSA will hate them as much as they hate anything else.
I find it amusing how much the DSA is singling out Marco Rubio for “genocidal war against the Cuban people.” Do they not realize that Marco Rubio IS Cuban-American?
Also, do they not understand what “genocidal war” actually means?
Never mind answering. We all know the answers.