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This last minute memo is very interesting. First of all didn’t S Rice realize that Trump was elected president in November. Wouldn’t you have written the memo before that instead of on the last or next to the last day? Are there other memos like this out there?
I saw Masochistic Omnipotence Syndrome open for Nirvana in ’93.
I don’t think it’s that progressives are afraid to recognize the evil of North Korea.
Rather, for them, Communism is axiomatically good and democratic. Note that they would often apply the phrase “true democracy“ to Communist regimes — in contrast with the “bourgeois democracy“ (i.e., free elections) of the West, which they consider “false”.
Thus, when Obama opened the doors to Cuba, he laid no requirements on it to improve civil or human rights, or hold free elections. Because in his mind, Cuba is a society that has established “social justice“ while the United States hasn’t. We should humbly emulate them, not the other way around.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free elections, all these things are valuable to progressives only in so far as they help bring a progressive regime to power. But once that is achieved, all these things need to be eliminated, lest ordinary people (the progressives’ inferiors) vote out the progressive regime, which must never happen.
To paraphrase Jonah Goldberg: The Will of the People should not be confused with what the people say they want.