Sivad wrote:...participation in all the gulag denial ...
All those black men who were imprisoned in the USA for smoking a joint, the guys who are making fastfood chain restaurant clothing for no salary... let's see if they would prefer to live with a Cuban style system of resource allocation and community participation in goverance.
...apolitical and is only motivated by your deep affection for the Cuban people.
My love for Cuba and Cubans is much greater than yours, and this is probably because for you and most other Empire-dwellers, Cuba is more of an "issue" than a place with a novel form of governance.
So if our emotional responses can manipulate our opinions and observations (most media is designed to do this), the fact that I haven't watched commercial media for 20 years and have visited Cuba frequently recently... means that my emotions were mainly triggered by my observations, and so my opinions have been altered since these encounters with observed "reality."
Most of what I have written here in this thread are a result of a changed vision of reality that comes from critical observation. (this used to be the definition of "journalism" before advertising took over)