My opinion is that the main culprit is the MSM fifty years love fest with the Fidel Castro and his "Robolution", and the lefty ideology.

Rest assured that if the MSM would have displayed the real Fidel Castro and his regime to the world maybe his tyranny would have been history by now.

There is no doubt in my mind after nearly forty years living in America that many regular Americans think that the MSM still tells them the truth.

Because of the MSM actions and conspiracy to change the fiber of America the nation finds itself in the situation that it is today with a Marxist President in charge and in the road to socialism and its own destruction.

If the people don't wake up quick and realize how much and for how long they have been duped by the MSM, the game is over for our country in the next few years.

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong in my assessment of the current situation because if I'm right it will be "hasta la vista baby America", at least the America we once new.

But aside from repeating castroite propaganda in the mainstream media, I've always held that the Branson Hunter's of the world are closet racists.

To them, its perfectly alright for Cubans [who are seen as 3rd "people-of-color"] to live without human rights as long as we have "free healthcare and education" because we're like cattle on a farm. We don't have the brains [like an American or Brit] to do it on our own, nor do we have their same ambitions or aspirations, and at least we have our basic necessities taken care of by castro. In their book as long as we get these basic needs taken care of, and can party the night away, we'll be happy.

To them, its impossible to fathom that Cuba was ever more than a Guatemala or a Honduras. It's impossible to think that Cubans in pre-Castro Cuba lived in many cases better than Americans did. Take my family for example: we were solidly working class people [no maids, no Havana Yacht Club, no mansion on Vedado, or a second house by the beach], but we had all of the comforts [and I would argue a better quality of life] than many similar American families in the USA would have had at the time. Like Americans, we had a refrigerator, blender, TV, radio, nice furniture, several pairs of shoes, stylish clothing for the time, etc... but we also lived in a country without harsh winters, near the beach, with swaying palm trees, outdoor cafes, and the splender of one of the most beautiful cities in the world [the Paris of the Americas] just a few miles away [we lived in the suburb of Marianao and were a bus ride away from Havana]. Contrary to what the Branson Hunter's of the world believe, we didn't live a on subsistence level, walking about barefoot and shirtless. When my stylish beautiful mother came as an exile to Miami in 1961, everyone stared at her. Even though she was a working class woman who had been born on a farm, she possessed that effortless elegance and class that Cuban women inherited from their iberians ancestors. Combined with her beauty, she looked more like a high class society woman than a refugee.

Which brings me to the way that they see Cuban exiles. Their attitude towards us is the flip side of the way that they see Cubans inside Cuba. They have so much rage against us [Oliphant cartoon is the epitome of this] because we are supposed to be docile and subservient. We are supposed to say, "Yeeeees, señor, wha can I do for yuuu," we are not supposed to have lobbies, and we are not supposed to petition congress for things that we hold near and dear to us even though the US constitution provides us with that right. You see, to them we are not real Americans.

I really believe racism is at the core of the Branson Hunter's of the world.

First of all, I didn't say ignorance was the main reason for fifty years of oppression. I said it was one of many reasons that happens to contribute greatly. Nevertheless, ignorance is evident in people such as this Branson Hunter, who has no idea what the hell he is talking about, and it is also evident in people that are aware of the atrocities that occur in Cuba, but choose to justify them or look past them. Either one is basically guilty of the same. They are either ignorant of reality, or they are ignorant of the suffering of the Cuban people.