Cuban Americans in Kansas City are warning their fellow Americans about the scourge of communism that is seeping into American culture and the government. Having experienced the misery and oppression of communism firsthand, they understand the transition to a Marxist dictatorship doesn’t happen overnight, but through a series of small moves that may seem harmless at first, but quickly accumulate until it becomes too late.
With the American left extolling the virtues of socialism and the U.S. government attempting to adopt communist policies of censorship, religious persecution, and the prosecution of those who dissent, it is obvious to Cuban Americans that unless it is stopped soon, communism will reign in America.
Government censorship and dependency. Religious intolerance. The jailing of political rivals and dissidents. Supply problems and emptying shelves. Unaffordable goods. Leaders lying through their teeth. Demonization by race and class. Dishonest, virtually state-run media.
They’re all frightening hallmarks of communist nations – and Cuban émigrés in Kansas City see it all happening here, as they and their forebears did under Fidel Castro.
“A lot of the Cubans I know are asking why they risked everything in the ’60s/’70s/’80s to come here if this place would eventually end up falling to communist goons,” one Cuban native and longtime area resident who wished to remain anonymous wrote to The Heartlander unsolicited.
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Ali McClain, of nearby Smithville, Missouri, was brought to the U.S. at age 4 by parents fleeing both crippling scarcity and Christian persecution. Despite not knowing the language, her parents were working inside of a month, eventually becoming entrepreneurs and business owners.
Yet, in the past four years “I actually heard my parents crying and feeling nervous because they said we’re seeing this country go into a socialist [direction] and we don’t like where it’s going.
“And for the first time in my life, I saw my parents scared – here, of all places, where they felt secure.
“Now I’m 62 years old and I’m starting to see the same thing I saw as a little girl in Cuba. That’s scary. It’s hard to hear your parents say, and my mother said it before she passed away, ‘What did we bring you girls here for, if this is the direction that America is going in?’”
In Cuba, McClain says, “we noticed that the shelves kept getting emptier and emptier and emptier” – to the point that her mother couldn’t obtain the goods necessary to nurse more offspring.
It didn’t help that the goat had to go, either.
“They ended up getting a goat and they had that in their backyard. Well, eventually they had to get rid of a goat because you weren’t allowed to have any kind of pets whatsoever.”
For those Americans who say “it can never happen here,” I would remind them that our parents and grandparents thought the same thing in 1958 when they were in Cuba. Just a few years later, they were forced to flee a murderous communist dictatorship that took away all their rights and found refuge in America.