A Slow Burn Becomes a Raging Fire- Disdain for U.S. Policies May Have Led to Alleged Spying for Cuba

Washington Post ^ | June 7, 2009 | Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber

[BfloGuy]

Why the children of the affluent become prone to socialism has always been a matter of wonder to me, especially considering what happens to such people under socialism.

My thoughts, exactly. This line from the article caught my eye.

the marina in Anne Arundel County where the Myerses docked their 38-foot sloop

Did they ever wonder why average Cubans didn't own 38 foot sloops? You have to shake your head at well-to-do leftists who've lived off the incredible wealth of capitalism all their lives but swoon over the deprivation and misery caused by their socialist heroes.

[kabumpo]

The children of the wealthy adore socialism because socilaism offers even more privilges to the elite than even the waelthy have in a free country — what the wealthy and the Bolshies have in common is the desire to concentrate capital in the hands of as few as possible — the Bolshies achieve this in a way that even the Rockefellers envy.

[kabumpo]

A planned economy is attractive to people with the arrogance to presume that they would be in the planning class.

THAT IS EXACTLY IT. It never occurs to them that they might be on the receiving end, with the peons.

[elpadre]

I recall after WWII and the growth of communism in the US, they did infest the government, especially the State Dept. Also significant sized colonies of wealthy families became communists developed. It seems there was a large pocket of them on Long Island, as an example. When things began to get hot for them, some of the hard core affluent fled to Mexico City where they set up an enclave and center of communist influence. I understand they remain active there.

[texas booster]

Help me out here. I read Armondo Valladares about the Cuban prisons. Truly soul destroying.

I googled Raoul Valladares and came up with very little.

??

[reasonisfaith]

How can you hate Bush for waterboarding and love Castro for real torture and murder?

There is no liberal on earth who can give a rational answer.

[Billthedrill]

A non-starter as a defense - they'd already been at it for twenty years by the time Bush came along. MICE - money, ideology, compromise, ego. With these folks it was ideology.

It will be interesting to see who in the media defends them. Why is fairly clear - a shared ideology.