“Zohran Mamdani ran an astonishingly powerful and effective campaign. Against a field of aging hacks, earnest nerds… he emerged as New York City’s hipster prom king, (Manhattan Institute, June 25th)
“Hipster Tammany Hall is here.” (National Review July, 9th)
“Zohran Mamdani and the Hipster Intifada…The meteoric rise of this 33-year-old ‘democratic socialist’, who last night became the Dems’ candidate for New York City mayor, has induced rapture among the digital left.” (The Spectator, June, 25th)
“They saw in Fidel Castro (33 years old at the time) and Che Guevara the hipsters who in the era of the Organization Man had joyfully defied the system.” (President Kennedy’s adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr, March, 1961.)
“Private corporate property is not only wrong, but also nonsensical…we cannot accept capitalism’s conception of economic relations as “free and private.” (Democratic Socialists of America, of which Zohran Mamdani is a proud member.”)
“Only through the total eradication of private property will we create the new man.” (Che Guevara)
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible!" (Che Guevara.)
Despite a half century of Stalinist crimes, this “hipster” cachet hovers around the leaders of the Cuban Revolution and persists to this day, and contributes much to socialism’s popularity among the “young and hip” worldwide. Then thanks largely to President Obama’s “rapprochement” with those Cuban “hipsters,” Stalinist Cuba became the absolute “coolest” place on earth for hip show-off vacationers.
Fortunately, during their first term, the Trump Team curtailed the Cuba-travel-palooza from the U.S., that was obscenely enriching Stalinist Cuba’s military and secret police, who own most of the prison island’s tourism infrastructure.
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Shortly after Obama’ initial diplomatic surrender to Castro in 2014, Katy Perry, the Rolling Stones and the Obama family itself graced Cuba with their presence. Then Karl Lagerfeld showcased his Chanel “cruise line” with a fashion-show extravaganza where Havana’s Prado Street served as the catwalk/runway for the world’s lithest models, while Gisele Bundchen, Tilda Swinton and Vin Diesel posed for paparazzi on the sidelines.
Shortly thereafter the Kardashians arrived in Havana to shoot an episode of their reality show.
The notion of Castro’s Cuba as stiflingly Stalinist nation never quite caught on among the “enlightened.” The regime was founded by “beatniks,” after all. In 1960 Jean Paul Sartre hailed Cuba’s Stalinist rulers as “les Enfants au Pouvoir” (the children in power). A few months earlier Fidel Castro spoke at Harvard the same bill as beat poet Allen Ginsberg. And ever since then, long-haired Che Guevara has reigned worldwide as top icon of youthful rebellion. The reality, as documented in my book, differs grotesquely:
In fact, Cuban socialism has always been a mortal enemy of almost everything “hipsters” and millenials claim to hold dear–a more implacable enemy, in fact, than were most Iron Curtain regimes. First off, notice the age of the typical half-dead Cuban rafter who washes up on south Florida’s beaches almost daily, often using his last reserves of energy to kiss the sand in gratitude. It’s rare to see one over 30.
The Castro brothers and Che Guevara often outdid their Soviet patrons in outlawing and punishing typical millennial behavior. While the Rolling Stones were performing for a huge crowd of Polish kids in Warsaw in 1967, for instance, Cuban kids were being herded into forced labor camps for the crime of (clandestinely) listening to rock music, or growing long hair, or wearing blue jeans.
“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates,” commanded Che Guevara. “Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.” “Youth,” wrote Guevara, “should learn to think and act as a mass!”
“Those who choose their own path” (as in growing long hair and listening to “Yankee-Imperialist” Rock & Roll) were denounced by the Castro Brothers and Che Guevara as worthless “roqueros,” “lumpen” and “delinquents.” In his famous speech, Che Guevara even vowed “to make individualism disappear from Cuba! It is criminal to think of individuals!”
The Cuban regime hailed by current American champions of “hipster” socialism jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror and murdered more Cubans in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered Germans during its first six . In the above process Fidel Castro and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians and boasts the highest suicide rate in the Western Hemisphere.
Here’s a list of Cuban’s socialism’s accomplishments:
*Converted a nation with a higher standard of living than much of Europe and swamped with immigrants from Europe into a vast slum and sewer that repels evens Haitians.
*Converted a nation that formerly attracted more immigrants per-capita than the U.S. (and even from the U.S.) into a hellhole that drove TWENTY times as many desperate Cubans to die horribly attempting to escape it as East Germans died trying to flee East Germany.
*Converted a nation with the 13th lowest infant-mortality on earth –-ahead of France, Belgium, West Germany, Israel, Japan, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Portugal– into an island slum, sewer and prison ravaged by diseases long-eradicated in Cuba, boasting the highest suicide rate in the hemisphere–and whose practicing “doctors” overwhelmingly flunk the exam given in the U.S. for licensing as doctor’s assistants.”
Every single item mentioned above thoroughly documented here.
Oh….and among Castro and Guevara’s first ploys was a “rent-freeze,” which went into effect in mid 1960. Millions of Cuban imbeciles whooped and cheered at the news, like so many whoop and cheer in New York today.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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