Lefties Go Looney at Madison over Cuba

James Taranto of the WSJ linked to this hilariously hysterical article emanating from that far-flung outpost of the formerly vast Communist Empire, the Socialist Oblast of Madison, Wisc.

It seems that the commissar-wannabees at the University fear the dissolution of the Workers' Paradise in Cuba. Notice how almost all of the witless commentary comes from UW hangers-on, remnants of the time when the student left meant something besides gender and sex manifestoes. Taranto quotes a superannuated cadre, but my favorites are from a "health physician":

"It is not a dictatorship to the degree that our government would like to paint it. This is a very functional government at the local and national levels," Micke said, stressing that he was speaking as an individual, not for the completely non-political humanitarian Medical Project. "The United States should not be meddling. We would certainly not want some other country to have a plan in place as to how to run our country if something happened here. That is a very imperialistic approach, that we have some God-given right to have a hand in Cuba's affairs."

Yeah, that sounds soooo.... NON-POLITICAL! And health physicians are highly qualified to talk about political systems and foreign policy, as we all know....
And of course, we must get the artistic slant on this problem of succession:

Robert Skloot, a UW-Madison professor of theater, drama and Jewish studies who has visited Cuba five times and taken students there once, said it is premature to say what might happen in Cuba.

"Things will be worked out in the next few weeks. The succession has been decided many years ago and so it is taking its course as to what should happen if Castro is incapacitated," Skloot said.

Regarding any possible U.S. involvement, he said, "It would be disastrous and lead to more complications than the United States is either able to deal with or would want to do in the world community."

Interesting that the word "democracy" does not appear in the article, not even using spurious leftist jargon like "People's Democratic Republic." I guess the communards of Madison have evolved far beyond the mere majority vote system we hapless Americans are accustomed to.

I wonder if billionaire Fidel subscribes to The Capitol Times for its political sagesse.