Thanks for the heads-up. I posted my $0.02 there.
Damn boy, nice answer, great facts! I knew you would have enough info to refute. I just don't have the time to look it up!
Like New York's Attorney General likes to say "everybody is entitled to their own opinions but nobody is entitled to their own facts."
Great stament.
All anyone has to do is visit Puerto Rico and the answer will become evident.
And Puerto Ricans have another advantage. They don't have swim to the USA. They can come and go as they please. No guns or block captains holding them on their island.
I've posted there before and MiamiCuban is as red as they come.
Thanks for the tip. It's very easy and confortable to be red from distance. Hypocrisy at its best
Is that "red" as in "communist" or "red" as in "republican"?
Red as in communist.
The PR vs. Cuba thing is an interesting question, even if it is absurd on the face of it, because it invites one to prioritize basic concepts: sovereignty, national identity, personal security, personal freedom and political freedom.
It seems to me that Puerto Rico, via the referendum process, has struck its own bargain - sacrificing sovereignty and some measure of national identity in exchange for personal freedom and economic opportunity.
Cuba, on the other hand, has taken a path that was supposed to lead them towards a better place, but instead raises a fundamental question: Why?
Seriously - why go through a traumatic revolution, mass dislocation, social upheaval, not to mention the constant existential stress that the average Cuban has lived with as crisis after crisis hits the island just to end up with a society that talks big on nationalism and sovereignty but in fact is an international lackey constantly in search of a patron?
Also, may I add, I think a better comparison of alternate paths being taken (mentioned elsewhere) is Cuba vs. the Dom. Rep. given that both Batista and Trujillo got knocked out at roughly the same time in history.
In my opinion the Puerto Ricans, after all they have been able to choose their own destiny when they go to the polls.
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