The socialist/fascist experiment in Cuba, after 46 torturous years, is assuredly and demonstrably a total failure. The government in Havana, though, would never acknowledge it, even if the Cubans were dying by the thousands in the streets outside of the Presidential palace. As in North Korea, it doesn't matter to them how many people go hungry or die; it's always the experiment, the idea, the system, that matters much more than the people themselves. Eventually, they promise, it will work. It has to work. Even after almost 80 years in the U.S.S.R., it failed to work, but there's always someone else who believes that it will.

Platitudes are most important, slogans take the place of food and shelter, but if necessary, the government uses the Army and raw power to enforce the regimentation of the citizens of the country when slogans fail. Under communism, under fascism, under tyranny, it is always the same, and the only chance for change comes when the leader dies, when La Cucaracha Grande is finally squashed.

MEANWHILE, IN HOLLYWOOD The perverted minds of America's liberal and fringe element are still unwilling to admit it, mainly because they cling to that old socialist myth of a Utopian society, one which they themselves can neither define, explain, nor would they be willing to live in such a social group or associate with the ordinary people, whom they view with disdain and contempt.

As we too often find, as in Hollywood, the most liberal element in that social strata live between their multiple mansions, bargain their domestic help out of nickels and dimes, and while earning millions per film still expect discounts or free clothing from hardworking shop-keepers or valuable paintings and antiques at cost. The prima donnas of liberalism demand larger and larger limousenes with every convenience except an Olympic-sized swimming pool, yet these paragons of virtue, these .

These are the same people who have literally become pimps for fidel, la Cucaracha Grande (The Great Cockroach). They fly to Havana, loll at his banquet table, wipe the sweat from his brow and spray lilac in his odiforous boots while gently caressing his bare feet.

These are the same people who support every liberal cause in the U.S., wish to ban the death penalty for cop killers, extend the reach of every new social welfare program, hold candle-light protests at executions, ensure fair and lengthy trials for murderers, birth to grave healthcare, ane every other hair-brained scheme that comes along...and yet... Yet, they approve of the rule and tyranny of la Cucaracha Grande, 46 years of tyranny for the Cuban people, 46 years of living in fear and suffering continuous degradation at the hands of an ego-manical dictator and murderer.

1. The current government in Havana does not legally hold power, and not a single one of the leaders in the government is an elected official.