WEBVTT - Honoring and Remembering My Tia Sonia 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome. It is Verdict was center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.840 with you and today is a really special episode of 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.119 Verdict with Ted Cruz and Senaera. I want you to 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.920 take it from there, but we're taking a little pause 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.760 from politics and talking about someone very near and dear 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:16.040 to you. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:22.239 Yeah. On Sunday, January twenty fifth, my aunt, my Theo 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.960 so Sonia went to be with the Lord. She and 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.560 I were incredibly close. Might the As Sonia was my 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.960 father's younger sister. My dad, as you know, fought in 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.280 the Cuban Revolution. He was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.640 by Batistas thugs. My Thea Sonya, it was younger than 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.000 he is, and so she was there after the revolution succeeded. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:50.280 She fought in the counter revolution and she was imprisoned 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:55.120 and tortured by Castro's thugs. And she's someone who who 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.040 I grew up very close to. I called her my 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:02.360 Thea Loka, my crazy aunt. She is fiery, she loved liberty, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.720 she loved America. She she has been ill for the 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.120 last couple of months. It was not a surprise when 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.360 she finally went. Uh. My cousin Bibe, who who is 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.959 my theos Sonya's only daughter has been caring for her, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:21.279 and and and and it and she passed Sunday morning 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.360 in in Bebe's living room with with her family around her, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.280 surrounded by family that that loved her, that was praying 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.560 for her. And she's gone to be with the Lord. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.880 And so our family is grieving because Theos Onya was 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.160 a larger than life personality. She had an unbelievable heart. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:45.679 Uh she would she would help anyone she she she 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.200 was extraordinary and and she was someone who before she 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.520 fell ill, we had my Thea Sonya as a guest 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.680 on Verdict. I wanted her to come on Verdict and 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.760 and tell her story, tell her story growing up in Cuba, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:05.120 seeing the Communist revolution, seeing Fidel Castro rise to power, 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.720 and then fighting in the counter revolution, being in a 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.920 Cuban jail, being tortured in Cuba, coming to America with nothing, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.960 and so in honor of my Thea Locao, whom I 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.320 loved with with all of my heart, I want to 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.760 give you the interview we did with my Thea Sonia, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.800 an extraordinary warrior for liberty. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.360 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz, we are joined 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.080 as ever by the senator and also by the senators Tia, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.240 Sonia is my Spanish is not very good, But I 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.640 think that was about right, An Sonia, that is thank you. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.600 This is in a few days going to be the 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:49.200 fifty eighth anniversary of your fleeing the communist regime in Cuba, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.200 and yet we've got the leader of the Democratic Party 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.359 nomination process is praising the Fidel Castro regime. I think 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:57.360 we have the clip very. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.639 Opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba. But you know, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.880 it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.519 when Fidel Cashtro came into office, you know what he did. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.560 He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.280 Listen, Bernie has spent his entire life, his entire career, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:18.639 praising communist dictators. But this week his latest ode to 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:24.120 Fidel Castro, frankly just pissed me off. It And this 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.800 is not a joke. This guy is the front runner 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.560 for the Democratic nomination to be president and he sings 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:37.000 the praises of Castro and Cuban communism. My dad fled 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.240 Cuban fifty seven. My Theosonia was still there. She was 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.160 a kid, and so she saw the Cuban Revolution firsthand, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.640 and she ended up fighting against Castro Sothia. If you would, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.720 I just want you to, first of all, tell me 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.560 what it was like to be in Cuba when when 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.160 the revolution happened, when Castro took over. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.640 Actually he was he was. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.280 A lot of people were happy because finally somebody was 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.840 coming in that was praising We're gonna give you a 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.760 chance to change hope, We're gonna change things around. Everybody 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.760 was gonna have whatever they want to. The poor will 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.920 never be poor, the rich continue to have money, and 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.120 everybody will be the same. In reality, yes, everybody went 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:28.000 the same, but everybody was poor. Everybody went down. Everybody 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.440 got paid the same amount of money. There was no 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.320 different between the poor and the rich. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:38.320 Everybody everyone was poor and suffering and miserable. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.279 And everybody was miserable. Everybody was miserable. What Bernie is 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.200 saying is a bunch of garbage. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.520 So you're there, you're you're a teenager. How old were you? 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.200 Probably sixteen fifteen? 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.600 Okay, so you're seeing this. You're a teenage girl. Right, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.000 you see what's happening. You see Castro begin executing people. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:03.479 Yeah, people, nobody could talk. Nobody could say anything. They 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.839 actually he trained the people to even be against the family, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.480 the sons against the father, the daughters acind the family. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.880 So how did he do that by in doctrinate. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.760 In these people by telling we're going to give you 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.240 this and that and the other, and it's all going 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.200 to be free. But you got to tell us what's 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.000 going on in your house? Who talk against the government. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.640 So everything was persecuting one another, especially the older people 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.760 that actually, we live a good life before in Cuba 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.120 it was beautiful. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.599 What do people face in terms of their friends and 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.440 neighbors and families spying on them? 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.520 Do you have people in each blog there is somebody 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.480 that is responsible to keep an eye on you in 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:46.080 your house. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.119 So's there's an individual spy, a spy and every block. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.200 And they tell you you keep an eye on every 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.160 neighbor of this blog. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.280 So what are they watching for? 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.960 They're watching for everything. If you bring anything you maybe 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.840 I'm going from the United States to Cuba, and they 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.880 there's somebody coming in, so we need to wash the 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.479 house in case they go out and sell in the 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.400 black market or they do something with what you brought in. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.320 So there's somebody's always keeping an iron you and try 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.080 to report you a good a good thing that happened 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.680 to something that happened to me that is very interesting. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.039 One of the trips that I went back to Cuba, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.679 I wanted to take the kids, some of the kids 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.880 from there, to go fishing. I love fishing. So I 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.880 went in and try to rent a boat, and they 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.280 told me we can't. We don't rain boats to Cuban people. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.160 And I said, you may leave. And I said, look, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.240 I have a passport, I have a fly leaving variety 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.840 already left, so I'm coming in to take my family 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.360 on a boat ride. We can't give it to you. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.719 We can't rent you a boat. You're you're Cuban. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.800 So because there's so if you go there you can 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.200 you can. She can't rent a boat because even though 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.360 she's an American citizen. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.440 Now, yes, you're Cuban, so you can't do that. There 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.839 was a boat in the reaver that my niece wanted 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.920 to go in. And when we're get in to ride 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.600 the boat with the rest of the people, who said 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.360 you all cannot get in. 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I mean, how 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:41.520 quickly did it turn? 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.600 Right away? 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.640 Right away? 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.000 He immediately starts saying the policies that he wanted to do. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.120 He was going to take tens away from the ridge. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.760 He was going to take tens away from the people 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:57.360 to give to others. He was to actually take money 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.200 from you and give it to the poors on the 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.960 other side. I make my money. I worked for what 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.120 I half. My father worked hard to be where he was. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.400 My mother was the greatest school teacher. She was really 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.840 was proud of what she was doing. My mother itself 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.960 was told did she have to teach at the school 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.240 a different kind of curriculum. She was told she needed 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.640 to teach about the revolution cassed through the regime, the 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.400 things that needed to happen. My mother had to actually 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.040 pretend that she was losing her mind and she was 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.319 missing immediately. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.400 So let me underscore this story and listen. I grew 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.320 up hearing this story as a kid. I mean I 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.240 would sit with my cousin, Bibe, Sonia's daughter. The two 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.040 of us would sit literally on the floor in the 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.280 living room and listen to my dad and my Theosonia 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.080 tell us stories about the revolution of Myabuela and Auela. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:55.240 Their parents were there also, so my grandmother, Miguela, she's 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.160 a sixth grade teacher. Castro takes over and she's ordered, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.360 you must teach Communism to the kids. You must indoctrinate, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.680 you must brainwash the kids. And my grandmother said she 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.680 wasn't going to do it. And so it's funny my 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:13.160 Theasonia mentioned something just very mild, but my grandmother pretended 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.079 she was insane in the classroom. She began literally foaming 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.800 at the mouth and pretending she was insane. Why because 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:24.040 she couldn't quit in the Communist she wasn't allowed to quit. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.439 And she made the decision she would rather have the stigma, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.760 have the shame of people thinking she was a crazy person, right, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.959 then be a part of indoctrinating these kids. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.520 That is true, and it was very painful because my 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.840 mother was a great teacher, It was loved by many people. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.080 But she had to play crazy in order to get 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:44.760 out of that sea. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.559 But what I want to know is how in Cuba 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.520 the public opinion changes very quickly. People see what a 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.120 monster Castro is and they start to hate his guts. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.040 How is it that in the United States now so 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.280 many years on, fifty eight years on since you left left, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.520 you have a presidential candidate, You get a US senator 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.000 who's still singing the praises of this guy. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.240 What did he miss He had not been with the 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.199 human people. He only if you go there as a Cuban, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.840 you go and see somebody a relative. If you're going 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.680 to see the miser that they live in. They don't 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.000 know what to put on the table to serve their kids, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.760 they don't know how to get they're gonna get the 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.760 food that they're going to eat tomorrow. If you are 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.199 going as somebody from another country or as a tourist 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.160 you're taking to you are actually become prisoner of the government. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.360 They take you where they want you to go. They 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.640 showed you the model school, they showed you the best hospitals, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.520 they showed you the best restaurants. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.640 In nineteen eighty nine, Sandards stated, after visiting Cuba, quote 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.960 I did not see a hungry child. I did not 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.079 see any homeless people. Bernie said the Cuban people quote 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.440 had an almost religious affection for Castro. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.560 That is not he is lying. He's lying to the 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.360 people of this country. He is playing on the mind 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.640 of the younger generation here. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.600 He was either himself complicit in the lie, or he 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.800 was naive enough or ideological enough to let the Castro 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.240 regime lie to him and say, look at this, this paradise. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.640 They didn't take into what the Cuban people were. Cuban 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.080 people are starving to death. Cuban people don't have any 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.200 money to buy anything. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.680 So let me take you back there, back to fifty nine, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:38.600 back to sixty. The revolution succeeded, you begin fighting against Castro. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.000 What happened to you as a result? What happened when 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:42.480 you started? 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:48.679 I was constantly persecuted. People was looking for me everywhere. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.319 They want to take me to prison. They picked me 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:52.439 up several times. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.600 So you were pretty clearly fighting. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.520 Against the totals. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.760 Yes, yes, and this is after Castro has taken over, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.720 so yes, dictate Yes. So what like when they picked 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.600 you up? What happened? What does that mean? 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:04.800 Well? 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.880 They put you in a room and there was people 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.720 sitting on the floor and everybody's you know, that's where 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.800 you were, with a whole bunch of people in the floor, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.240 and they keep it there for two or three days. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.280 My parents did not know where I was. My mother 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.840 did not know, so she was going crazy trying to 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.360 find me. My friends, friends that I have could not 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.160 even come and find out with my parents where I 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.800 was I or what was wrong with me. They were 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:38.160 afraid because everybody was persecuted. So it was very difficult 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.200 to leave on the Castro regime. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.640 When you left Cube it was sixty two. You left, right, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.760 you've been back a bunch of times, right, yes? What if? 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.640 So when you come back you usually bring a duffel 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.440 bag with medicine, break. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.480 Food, clothes, cheats. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.320 Just for relatives, friends, friends, people. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.680 Well, so they can't get anything, nothing, nothing. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.200 She leaves a suitcase, she leaves every body, but she 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.520 leaves her underwear and brail because nobody has underwear there 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.200 because there's so much poverty. You'll wear like sweatpants, a 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.480 T shirt. That's what they wear, and that's on the 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.960 plane coming right. That is correct. A lot of people 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.760 don't understand what is the difference between socialism. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:24.800 That is correct. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.600 Socialism is simply the economic system of communism. Socialism is 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.280 government ownership of the means of production or distribution. Cuba 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.080 in the nineteen fifties was the world's number one producer 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.040 of sugar. It had problems. Look, Batista was a corrupt dictator. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.120 He was a bastard. My father to this day doesn't 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.880 have his front teeth because Batista's police kicked them in. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.520 His guards kick his army officers kicked them in. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.400 But what about the universal healthcare? I mean, we're told 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.080 by a lot of people in the United States, a 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.800 lot of left wingers, they say Cuba has some of 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.920 the best healthcare in the world, and everybody's covered. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.000 I can personally tell you that I went to the 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.520 doctor there because I have mosquito biys that it got 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.160 into effect infection, and they put a shot on me 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.760 in front of sixty other people that were there waiting 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.680 for to being seen by a doctor. There's no transportation, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.360 there's no gas, so you can't move. Doctors come to 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.520 your house in a bicycle and they're hungry. They're hungry 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.640 when they get there. They come to the house to see. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.320 Matter of fact, I was in a house visiting and 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.760 they were trying to see the little girl. He came 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.160 in a bicycle and I bought some things that there 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.880 was somebody in the streets selling, and he said, can 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:37.560 I have one. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.240 Probably the most visible sign that Cuba hasn't changed or 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.080 hasn't progressed is they have those old cars, right. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.240 And you know, people like to think that that's sort 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.360 of quaint and cute that they have cars from the 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.040 nineteen fifties. The reason they had cars from the nineteen 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.320 fifties is they can't get anything else. You know. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.000 The scary thing about all of this is you've got 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.640 the experience of it, eight years of experience since you 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.560 left Cuba. There are various studies that have come out 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.119 that show that even the majority of young Americans, millennials 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:12.520 and Gen z now embrace socialism and prefer it to capitalism. Now, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.879 the bright side, I will say, the silver lining, is 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.240 that a much smaller percentage can actually define socialism. So 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.679 there would seem to be a problem there. But beyond 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.640 just ignorance, beyond just not knowing what it is, what 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.640 is drawing young Americans to this evil, evil ideology is. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.640 The work that they is given out the change. They 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.040 want to see something different, they want to try something new. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:42.480 It doesn't work, guys, it does not work. All of 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.040 this ambition and given it, given it to me, there's 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.040 nothing given to you. You need to work and try 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.959 to achieve your dream by hard work, but by doing 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.400 what you want to get ahead. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.040 I mean, I've noticed this with with your colleague Senator Sanders. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.720 You know, I mean, he's been talking about this for 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.560 fifty years and no one listened. But now only you know, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.119 now that he's in his mid seventies, it's catching on. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.640 And I even think of this absent Bernie Sanders. Forget 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.080 about him for a second. It took a long time. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.520 People knew that communism socialism were terrible for so long, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.320 and now they don't know that well, and too often 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.920 they're not taught in schools what happened. You know, how 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:33.680 many Bernie supporters know that the Soviet Union killed twenty 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.200 million people and China killed seventy seven million people. They 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.159 don't know that, and so when Bernie defends it, it 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.240 seems look and I have to admit, I remember in 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.800 college a guy who lived down the hall for me 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.679 had a poster on the wall of Chaegovar and I 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:51.040 went in. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.040 I said, hey, that's really cool. That's all you know. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.719 Chaegovar was a gorilla fought with Fidel Castro in Cuba. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.399 And I said, hey, that's really cool, that's awesome. Have 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.199 you thought of maybe putting a poster of Hitler next year? 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.480 And maybe Stalin and Maw like, if you're going to 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:09.440 celebrate people that torture and murder. Actually, Chay was he 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:11.960 was low on the totem pole, but you know he 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.639 was good looking, he had stubble and he was you 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:22.160 know it. These villains have been glamorized. Yeah, and it's 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:22.920 it's dangerous. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.119 You know, we've talked a lot about the political and 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.680 the economic side of things, how the government takes all 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.680 your stuff and then they take power away from you. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.119 You're both religious. I notice, Sonya, you have a cross 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:39.560 that you're wearing. Obviously, Senator Cruz, one of the big 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.520 aspects of communism as it's always been practiced is the 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.960 atheism of it all. And I wonder if there's a 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.320 relation here that, as religiosity in America has declined, as 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.600 young people are raised more or less without a religion, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.359 if maybe that's playing some role in why communism is 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:55.840 catching on. You know, one of the great men of 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.320 the twentieth century to defeat communism was the Pope was 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:00.720 Pope John Paul second. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.920 Well and and and Pope John Paul the second played 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.400 a profound role of going going to Poland, and and 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.399 and and and promising that Poland would be free and 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.120 speaking up and it was truly. I think divine providence, providence, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.560 we want God and and and Reagan and Margaret Thatcher 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.000 all at the same time. And I think those three people, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.120 more than any human beings on earth, defeated the Soviet 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.280 Union and won the Cold War. Mind you, Bernie was 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.960 rooting for the Soviet Union during all of that. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.880 Right, it's not even hiding at that much. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:39.160 Bernie honeymooned in the Soviet Union. Michael Whorred, You honeymoon 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.000 honeymooned in Hawaii, USA. Okay, that's where, like normal people, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.960 you go to the beach, you go to how do 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:47.840 you know what to say, Thomas, It was beautiful. We 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.160 were walking along the beach. We had fun. What kind 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:56.160 of crazy ideologue says, sweetheart, I love you so much. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.760 Let's do a honeymoon in the Soviet Union. You know 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.760 that club you played? He says, he's no friend of Putin. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.720 There's only one person I know on the national stage 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.560 that honeymoon in the Soviet Union. You know, the Soviet 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:13.639 Union killed over twenty million people. This is not cute, 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.800 little faculty leftists. If Bernie was a professor at some 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.200 liberal arts college out in the Frozen tundra. Who cares 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.960 he's just corrupting a few young minds. This is someone 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.439 who wants to be president of the United States, and 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:30.639 he kisses up to and apologizes for tutalitarian dictators. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:31.399 And you know who. 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:36.280 He doesn't praise Americans, Like when have you ever heard 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:40.480 him speak as positively about Abraham Lincoln as he does 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.760 about Castro and Ortega and Mao and Stalinist and communism 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:49.880 also hates God. If you look at these communist regimes, 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:55.600 they persecute faith, They persecute they prevent people from the 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.399 beauty of the First Amendment is it gives everyone the 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.240 right to choose how to worship, what your faith will be. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.439