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One has to wonder at naivety of some people. Listen, I know modern media made us jaded and mistrusting by default, so this might get brushed under carpet as "W
by clarionbell 4y ago
One has to wonder at naivety of some people.
Listen, I know modern media made us jaded and mistrusting by default, so this might get brushed under carpet as "Well all politicians lie." but countries like Cuba take propaganda to another level.
The default stance when reading any of their official news source, as it was in Czechoslovakia several decades ago, is to believe the opposite.
And all news sources are official news sources.
There are no evil capitalists, remember? So no privately owned printers, TV studios etc. By default everything is state owned or controlled. And state has a single party in charge, by law.
Calling any process in that sort of state "democratic" is about as sensible as calling Amazon union friendly.
Actually, that's a fitting analogy. Consider a company town, single employer, running everything. Mayor and councilors are managers on company payroll. And nobody can start a new business unless they have a go ahead from them. The town also makes it's own laws. By the way, the town has a jail and people can be, and routinely are, locked up in there for disagreeing with how things are run.
What kind of democratic debate can you have in a place like that?
- trasz 4y agoYou are right in regards to Cuba. You are wrong by assuming it’s any better in, say, US.
- bstr_ 4y agoYes, that makes sense. It's just as bad in the US. Ok.
- kcplate 4y agoIt’s funny, I live in the US and have been publicly critical of various aspects of the last 7 presidents and no one has jailed me yet for that criticism or even threatened me in any way.
- pastacacioepepe 4y agoHello Assange? Hello Snowden??
- kcplate 4y agoHello? Stealing classified information is a crime. Being critical of the government is not.
- pastacacioepepe 4y agoWhen the government behaves worse than a criminal, it is only heroic to expose its crimes. Especially heroic when you know it's a violent, arrogant and vindicative government.
- kcplate 4y agoI don’t disagree, but Snowden and Assange’s legal issues are due to criminal acts, not because of political speech. You can certainly create justification around those criminal acts being for the greater good, but that doesn’t mean that they are no longer criminal acts.