WEBVTT - A Firsthand Look at Socialism 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.360 A specter is haunting the United States, the specter of 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.360 Bernie's revolution. We are joined tonight not just by the Senator, 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.320 but by someone who fled another socialist revolution, one that 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.720 Bernie Sanders speaks very highly of. This is Verdict with 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:25.479 Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. We 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.400 are joined as ever by the Senator and also by 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.760 the senators. Tia sonja is. My Spanish is not very good, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.360 but I think that was about right, Aunt, thank you. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.239 This is in a few days going to be the 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.879 fifty eighth anniversary of your fleeing the communist regime in Cuba, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.960 and yet we've got the leader of the Democratic Party 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.080 nomination process is praising the Fidel Castro regime. I think 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.120 we have the clip very opposed to the authoritarian nature 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.880 of Cuba. But you know, it's unfair to simple say 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.560 everything goes bad. You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.400 you know what he did. He had a massive literacy program. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.039 Is that a bad thing? Listen? Bernie has spent his 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:11.200 entire life, his entire career, praising communist dictators, but this 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:16.039 week his latest ode to Fidel Castro frankly just pissed 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.040 me off. It and this is this is not a joke. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.119 This guy is the front runner for the Democratic nomination 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.160 to be president. And and and he sings the praises 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.760 of Castro and Cuban communism. My dad fled Cuban fifty seven. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.440 Matthiasonia was still there. She was a kid, and so 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.399 she saw the Cuban revolution firsthand, and she ended up 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.040 fighting against Castro. So THEA if you would, I just 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.679 want you to, first of all, tell me what it 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.680 was like to be in Cuba when when the revolution happened, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:56.240 when Castro took over, Actually he was, he was a 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.240 lot of people were happy because finally somebody was coming 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.560 in that was pretty seen. We're gonna give you a 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.760 chance to change a hope, We're going to change things around. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.760 Everybody was going to have whatever they want to. The 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.240 poor will never be poor, the rich continued to have money, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.560 and everybody will be the same. In reality, yes, everybody 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.359 went the same, but everybody was poor. Everybody went down. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.880 Everybody got paid the same amount of money. There was 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.799 no difference between the poor and the rich. Everybody. It's 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.560 not everyone was. Everyone was poor and suffering and miserable. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:38.280 And everybody was miserable. Everybody was miserable. What Bernie's saying 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.040 is a bunch of garbage. So you're there, you're you're 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.560 a teenager. Held were you? Probably he's sixteen fifteen? Okay, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.520 so you're seeing this. You're a teenage girl. Right, you 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:55.120 see what's happening. You see Castro begin executing people, Yeah, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.200 persecuting people. Nobody could talk, nobody could say anything. They 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.520 actually trained the people to even be against the family, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.880 the sons, against the father, the daughter seconds. So how 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.079 did he do that by indoctrinated in these people by 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.120 telling them, we're going to give you this and that 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.640 and the other, and it's all going to be free. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.800 But you gotta tell us what's going on in your house? 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.680 Who talk against the government. So everything was persecuting one another, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.200 especially the older people that actually we leave a good 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.639 life before in Cuba it was beautiful. What do people 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.399 face in terms of their friends and neighbors and families 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.480 spying on them. You have people in each blog, there 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.120 is somebody that is responsible to keep an eye on 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:45.640 you in your house. So there are an individual every 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.000 bye and every block. And they tell you you keep 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.680 an eye on every neighbor of this blog. So what 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.760 thing watch for? They're watching for everything if you bring 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.520 anything you maybe I'm going from United States to Cuba, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.160 and they there's somebody coming in, so we need to 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.920 wash the house in case they go out and sell 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.320 in the black market or they do something with what 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.640 you brought in. So there somebody's always keeping an iron 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.960 you and try to report you a good A good 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.320 thing that happened to something that happened to me that 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.120 is very interesting. One of the trips that I went 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.800 back to Cuba, I wanted to take the kids, some 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.520 of the kids from there, to go fishing. I love fishing. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.719 So I went in and try to rent a boat 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.040 and they told me we can't. We don't rambows to 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.880 Cuban people. And I said, you may leave. And I said, look, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.120 I have a passport, I have a fly. Little Friday 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.520 already left, so I'm coming in to take my family 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.040 on a boat run. We can't give it to you. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.560 We can't rent you a boat. You're you're Cuban. So 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:56.720 because she can't rent a boat because she's Cuban, even 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.880 though she's an American citizen. Now, yes, you're a Cuban. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.760 So you can't do it. That there was a boat 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.000 in the river that my niece wanted to go in. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:10.039 And when we get in, to ride the boat with 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.200 the rest of the people, and say, y'all cannot get in. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.120 You'll like Cuban, And I said, but we're paying with 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.520 the same money that they're paying. Well, I'm sorry, you 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.120 can't come in. You're not from another country. You're a Cuban, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.800 and Cuban people are not allowed. They're not allowed to 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.960 leave because they know if they were allowed to leave, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.880 they'd all live. Sona. How quickly after, as you say, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.960 you know, people liked Castro initially they he was promising 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.920 in the world. How quickly did it turn? I mean, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.240 how quickly did it turn? Right away? Right away? He 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.320 immediately starts saying the policies that he wanted to do. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.520 He was going to take tents away from the ridge. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.080 He was going to take tents away from the people 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.760 to give to other He was to actually take money 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.560 from you and give it to the poors on the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.960 other side. I make my money for what a half. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.919 My father worked hard to be where he was. My 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.480 mother was the greatest school teacher. She was really was 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.320 proud of what she was doing. My mother itself was 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.680 told did she have to teach at the school a 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.680 different kind of curriculum. She was told she need to 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.320 teach about the revolution, cast through the regime, the things 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.719 that needed to happen. My mother have to actually pretend 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.480 that she was losing her mind and she was just 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.440 missing immediately. So let me underscore this story and listen. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.520 I grew up hearing this story as a kid. I mean, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.320 I would sit with my cousin Beebe, who's Sonia's daughter. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.200 The two of us would sit literally on the floor 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.880 in the living room and listen to my dad and 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.960 Mythasonia tell us stories about the revolution, and my Abuela 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.880 and Abuela, their parents were there also. So my grandmother, Abuela, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.480 she's a sixth grade teacher. Castro takes over and she's ordered, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.680 you must teach Communism to the kids. You must indoctrinate, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.039 you must brainwash the kids. And my grandmother said she 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.400 wasn't going to do it. And so it's funny, Mathiason, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.520 you mentioned something just very mild, but my grandmother pretended 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.400 she was insane in the classroom. She began literally foaming 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.120 at the mouth and pretending she was insane. Why because 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.760 she couldn't quit in the communist dictatorship. See, she wasn't 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.600 allowed to quit, and she made the decision she would 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.640 rather have the stigma, have the shame of people thinking 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.920 she was a crazy person, right then be a part 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.440 of indoctrinating these kids. That is true, and it was 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.720 very painful because my mother was a great teutory was 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.000 loved by many people, but she had to play crazy 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.720 in order to get out of that s What I 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.200 want to know is how in Cuba the public opinion 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.960 changes very quickly. People see what a monster Castro is 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.680 and they start to hate his guts. How is it 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.280 that in the United States, now, so many years on, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.400 fifty eight years on since you left, you have a 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.240 presidential candidate, You got a US senator who's still singing 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.080 the praises of this guy. What did he miss? He 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.680 had not been with the human people. He only if 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.240 you go there as a Cuban, you go and see somebody, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.680 a relative, you're going to see the misery that they 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.840 leave in. They don't know what to put on the 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.120 table to serve their kids, They don't know how to 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.000 get They're gonna get the food that they're going to 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:28.560 eat tomorrow. If you're going as somebody from another country 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.640 or a sa tourist, you're taken to you are actually 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.920 become prisoner of the government. They take you where they 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.120 want you to go. They showed you the model school, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.280 they showed you the best hospitals, they showed you the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.480 best restaurants. In nineteen eighty nine, Sanders stated, after visiting Cuba, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.200 quote I did not see a hungry child. I did 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.960 not see any homeless people. Bernie said the Cuban people 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.760 quote had an almost religious affection for Castra. That is 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.960 not true. He is lying, and he's lying to the 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.680 people of this country. He is playing on the mind 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:09.559 of the younger generation here. He was either himself complicit 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.280 in the lie, or he was naive enough or ideological 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.840 enough to let the Castro regime lie to him and say, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.199 look at this, this paradise. They didn't take into what 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.720 the Cuban people were. Cuban people are starving to death. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.760 Cuban people don't have any money to buy anything. So 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.040 let me take you back there, back to fifty nine, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:36.920 back to sixty the revolution succeeded, you begin fighting against Castro. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.319 What happened to you as a result. What happened when 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:46.960 you start? I was constantly persecuted. Our people was looking 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.040 for me everywhere. They want to take me to prison. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.120 They picked me up several times. So you were pretty 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.760 clearly fighting against totally against Castro. Yes, yes, son, this 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.200 is after Castro has taken over, so he's to dictate. Yes. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.040 So what like when they picked you up? What happened? 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.800 What does that mean? Well, they they put you in 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.160 a room and there was people sitting on the floor 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.679 and everybody's you know, that's where you were, with a 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.000 whole bunch of people in the floor, and they keep 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.240 it there for two or three days. My parents did 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.360 not know where I was. My mother did not know, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.320 so she was going crazy trying to find me. My friends, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.000 friends that I have could not even come and find 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.680 out with my parents where was I or what was 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.400 wrong with me. They were afraid because everybody was persecuted. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:40.480 So it was very difficult to leave on the Castro regime. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.880 When you left Cube, it was sixty two. You left, right, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.000 You've been back a bunch of times, right? Yes? What if? 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.360 So when you come back you usually bring a duffel 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:57.160 bag with medicine, medicine, I drink, food, clothes, cheets, just 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:03.560 for relatives, friends, people that need so they can't get anything, nothing, nothing. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.200 She leaves a suitcase, she leaves every body, but she 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.480 leaves her underwear and brawl everything because nobody has underwear there. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.120 Because there's so much poverty. You'll wear like sweatpants, a 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:20.400 T shirt. That's one coming right. That is correct. A 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.720 lot of people don't understand what is the difference between socialism. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:28.360 That is correct. Socialism is simply the economic system of communism. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.560 Socialism is government ownership of the means of production or distribution. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.959 Cuba in the nineteen fifties was the world's number one 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.280 producer of sugar. Yeah, it had problems. Look, Batista was 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.200 a corrupt dictator. He was a bastard. My father to 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.959 this day doesn't have his front teeth because Batista's police 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.480 kicked them in, his guards kick his army officers kicked 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.160 them in. But what about the universal healthcare? I mean, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.240 we're told by a lot of people in the United States, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.960 a lot of left wingers. They say Cuba has some 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.200 of the best healthcare in the world, and everybody's covered. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.120 I can personally, I tell you that I went to 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.559 the doctor there because I have mosquito buys that he 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.240 got into effects infection, and they put a shot on 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.560 me in front of sixty other people that were there 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.000 waiting for to being seen by a doctor. There's no transportation, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.600 there's no gas, so you can't move. Doctors come to 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.800 a house in a bicycle and they're hungry. They're hungry 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.560 when they get there. They come to the house to 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.439 see a matter of fact, I was in a house 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.680 visiting and they were trying to see the little girl. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.880 He came in a bicycle and I bought some things 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.000 that there was somebody in the streets selling, and he said, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.000 kind of have one. Probably the most visible sign that 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.040 Cuba hasn't changed or hasn't progressed is they have those 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.640 old cars, right yes. And you know, people like to 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.880 think that that's sort of quaint and cute that they 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.000 have cars from the nineteen fifties. The reason they had 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.679 cars from the nineteen fifties is they can't get anything else. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.200 You know. The scary thing about all of this is 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.120 you've got the experience of it, fifty eight years of 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.840 experience since you left Cuba. There are various studies that 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.120 have come out that show that even the majority of 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.640 young Americans, millennials and gen z now embrace socialism and 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.000 prefer it to capitalism. Now, the bright side, I will say, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.880 the silver lining, is that a much smaller percentage can 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.640 actually define socialism. So there would seem to be a 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.440 problem there. But beyond just ignorance, beyond just not knowing 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:28.160 what it is, what is drawing young Americans to this evil, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.199 evil ideology is the work that they is given out 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.080 the change. They want to see something different, they want 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.600 to try something new. It doesn't work, guys, it does 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:45.319 not work. All of this ambition and given it, given 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.000 it to me, there's nothing given to you. You need 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.520 to work and try to achieve your dream by hard work, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.160 but by doing what you want to get ahead. I mean, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.600 I've noticed this with your colleague, Senator Sanders, you know, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.800 I mean, he's been talking about this for fifty years 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.280 and no one listened. But now only you know, now 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.600 that he's in his mid seventies. It's it's catching on. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:13.079 And I even think of this absent Bernie Sanders. Forget 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.440 about him for a second. It took a long time 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.880 people knew that communism socialism were terrible for so long, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.680 and now they don't know that well, and too often 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.320 they're not taught in schools what happened. You know, how 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:34.080 many Bernie supporters know that the Soviet Union killed twenty 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.600 million people and China killed seventy seven million people. They 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.560 don't know that, and so when Bernie defends it, it 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.600 seems look and I have to admit, I remember in 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.200 college a guy who lived down the hall for me 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.560 had a poster on the wall of che Guvar, Yeah, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.880 and I went in. I said, hey, that that's really cool. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.800 That's all you know. Che Guvar was a guerrilla fought 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.960 with Fidel Castro in Cuba, And I said, hey, that's 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.920 really cool, that's awesome. Have you thought of maybe putting 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.000 a poster of Hitler next year and maybe Stalin and Mao, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.400 like if you're going to celebrate people that torture and murder. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.880 Actually Chay was. He was low on the totem pot, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.280 but you know, he was good looking, he had stubble 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.640 and he was you know it. These villains have been 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.400 glamorized and it's it's dangerous. You know. We've talked a 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.840 lot about the political and the economic side of things, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.800 how the government takes all your stuff and then they 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.720 take power away from you. You're both religious. I notice, Sonia, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.960 you have a cross that you're wearing. Obviously, Senator Cruz, 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.440 one of the big aspects of communisms, it's always been practiced, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.040 is the atheism of it all. And I wonder if 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.160 there's a relation here that, as religiosity in America's declined, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.960 as young people are raised more or less without a religion, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.760 if maybe that's playing some role in why communism is 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.240 catching on. You know, one of the great men of 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.720 the twentieth century to defeat communism was the Pope was 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.600 John Paul the Second, Well and and Pope John Paul 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.440 the Second played a profound role of going going to 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.040 Poland and and and and and and promising that Poland 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.800 would be free and speaking up and it was truly 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.760 I think divine providence, providence, we want God and and 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.360 and Reagan and Margaret Thatcher all at the same time. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.520 And I think those three people, more than any human 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.480 beings on earth, defeated the Soviet Union and won the 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.560 Cold War. Mind you, Bernie was rooting for the Soviet 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.080 Union during all the rights um it's hiding that, But 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:39.040 it's Bernie honeymooned in the Soviet Union, Michael. Where you 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:44.400 honeymooned in Hawaii, USA? Okay, that's where, like normal people, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.360 you go to the beach, you go to how do 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.600 you know which? Same times? It was beautiful, We were 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.720 walking along the beach, we had fun. What kind of 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.600 crazy idealogue? Yeah, says sweetheart, I love you so much. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.160 Let's do a honeymoon in the Soviet Union. You know 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.160 that club you play? He says, he's no friend of Putin. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.080 There's only one person I know on the national stage 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.560 that your honeymood. And the Soviet Union. You know, the 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:14.000 Soviet Union killed over twenty million people. This is not cute, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.200 little faculty leftist. If Bernie was a professor at some 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.600 liberal arts college out in the frozen tundra, who cares, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.359 He's just corrupting a few young minds. This is someone 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.760 who wants to be president of the United States, and 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:31.359 he kisses up to and apologizes for totalitarian dictators and 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.200 you know who. He doesn't praise Americans, right, Like, when 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.640 have you ever heard him speak as positively about Abraham 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.640 Lincoln as he does about Castro and Ortega and Mao 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.639 and Stalinist and communism also hates God. Yeah. If you 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.800 look at these communist regimes, they persecute faith, They persecute, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:59.600 they prevent people from the beauty of the First Amendment 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.600 is it gives everyone the right to choose how to worship, 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.000 what your faith will be. You know, Bernie when he 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:10.080 praised China in the debate this week, somehow, when Bernie 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.320 talked about it, it's great poverty eradication. You don't have 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.000 to go back to Mao to find the torture and murder. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.200 Right now today there are one million weakers, yeah, a 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:25.080 religious and ethnic minority, one million in concentration camps in 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:31.679 China today. Why is burning and why are leftists so 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.640 willing to praise and be proud of regimes that are 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:40.280 torturing and murdering people. Do you think this is part 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.840 of why they make their appeal successfully though, Because the 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.360 thing I notice so much about the socialists in America 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.240 today is they're all making these very moral arguments. It's 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.480 about human rights. It's about giving people their right to 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.639 healthcare and their right to have a lot of money. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.560 Here's a story my grandmother told me. In the schools 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.600 you would have of Cuban soldiers come in, and this 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:07.680 is kindergarten, first grade, and they'd tell the children. They'd say, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:12.280 close your eyes and pray to Jesus for a piece 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.080 of candy. And the kids would all do it, and 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.119 they'd open their eyes and there'd be no candy. And 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.880 then the soldiers would say, close your eyes and pray 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.080 to Fidel Castro for a piece of candy. You're kidding me, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.600 And the kids would close their eyes and the soldiers 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.480 would put candy on their desks, and they'd open their 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.520 eyes and there was candy. This is the literacy program, 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.239 Bernie Sanders. It is praising. This is this is the 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:43.800 indoctrination that Miabuela refused to participate in. And that is true. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:49.959 They are actually inductrinating the people since they were tiny 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.840 little kids. Did it work? I mean, the course she 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.920 doesn't work. It does people? What don't they work? They 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.199 don't work. Nobody want to work in Cuba. What do 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.399 they want to work? They're gonna make the same money 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.160 that you're making that he's making. What do I want 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.280 to do that? But do they believe the theory? I mean, 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.840 does the indoctrination end up persuading purely. They thought that 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.760 it was going to be reality. They really blind them 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.840 to believe what they were saying. But they immediately took 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.200 the blind off. I'm saying, everybody's in the same boat. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.480 We're all hungry. They know they're hungry, they know they're poor, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.200 they know miserable, they know that has him. That's right. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.200 I mean, there's a reason people every day risk their 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.000 lives to fleet Cuba. That's correct. You know. You know 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.119 Reagan the height of the Cold War, he had a 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.800 great way of putting it. He said, the thing liberals 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.040 never seemed to notice is on the Berlin Wall, the 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.119 machine guns all point in one direction. That you didn't 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.000 get anyone from East Germany saying or from West Germany 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.800 saying I gotta go live in that communist paradise. Right. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.640 The way I like to put it is a Cuban American. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.159 Is the thing liberals ever notice is in Cuba, the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.840 rafts are all going one way. Just once. I'd like 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.840 to see Bernie Sanders go hop on a raft in 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.879 Key West. Yeah. And by the way, he had a 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.440 lot of racialized medicine. They there. It's just you can't 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.440 get you can't actually see a doctor you can't get medicine. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.800 You you can't get toilet paper. Yeah. Well, actually, you know, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.600 tying in all of these points on the economic, on 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.600 the political, and on the religious, Communism has been called 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.240 the God that failed, right. It was a sort of 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.919 substitute religion, aus substitute god, and it failed, and you 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:40.720 saw it fail personally. What was the what was the 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.240 biggest shock, I mean, what was the biggest despair, the 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.680 biggest regret when when you saw something that you had 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:54.600 believed in fail. Well, the the biggest it was seeing 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.560 the people suffering for not being able to even get 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.320 food to put a They played so basic, the basic 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.960 thins that no, don't being able to work, because why 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:08.800 do you want to work when you don't have anything 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:13.400 to buy with? You know that money disappear from you immediately, 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.880 and you all know the numbers, but you know an 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.440 average person make thirty dollars a month, thirty dollars per 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.679 thirty dollars per month. Wow, so what are you going 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:30.800 to do with that? Right? So, people are being drinking water. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.399 You see the kids they dink water with sugar to 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:39.159 get their stomach. Fool. It's it's that that basic need. 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.840 It's so interesting that you say that, because it's communism 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.040 starts at as this idealistic fantasy, very high falutin, very 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.440 high minded literacy programs, all that, and then the reality 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.000 of the failures, people can't even fill their stomach. That 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.600 is true, although you know there is one exception, which 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:58.600 is the Communist Party rulers look Fidel Castro lived like 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:02.520 a billionaire. By the way, Putin lives like a billionaire. 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:07.400 Maduro and Hugo Chabez before him, they live like billionaires. Right, 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.520 Communism when you have all the power at the top, 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.080 and and and what does Bernie suggest it would be 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.600 any different if the government is in charge of everything 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:22.320 every place that has happened, the rulers live like kings, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:26.080 and everyone else's is miserable. Right. Well, we did actually 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.360 get one mail bad question that I think is very 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.240 much on this topic, which is with the Democratic Party 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:36.280 veering so far to the left of embracing these absolutely 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.840 disgusting positions, hopefully we'll turn off most of the American people. 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.480 Should conservatives be happy? Should conservatives be happy that the 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:45.720 God that failed is about to fail? The Democratic Party? 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:51.760 Not necessarily You're not as as complacent. I understand people saying, Okay, great, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.760 Bernie's so extreme that means Trump will get reelected. I 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.880