If the US bought them, they really wouldn't be "free elections", would they?
I agree that would happen, but lots of my fellow Americans don't. So to them Castro is an evil dictator who just likes being in charge (and the part about just liking to be the boss may very well be true); but I don't think the vast majority of my fellow Americans are moronic. Ignorant, maybe willfully so sometimes, but not idiots.
But still, the fact remains that Cuba is a society in many respects on lockdown (not entirely by it's own choice...see the embargo) which is totally incompatible with the practice of democracy. You can look at US society and say the same thing!
I was listening to an interview with yesterday, and the statement was made that in "The End Of History" he discussed the battle between socialism and "liberal democracy". I thought the battle was between socialism and capitalism, as they are both economic systems.
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