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Let Them Eat
Cake
In Michael
Moore’s latest feature length fantasy titled, Sicko, the
filmmaker attempts to show us just how bad the healthcare system in the
US is by comparing it to the so-called free universal healthcare
available in, of all places, Cuba. With his usual disdain for actual
facts and the complete disregard for context that are so prevalent in
all of his films, Mr. Moore would have you believe that the average
Cuban citizen has access to and receives superior healthcare in
comparison to the average American. The truth about Cuba’s healthcare or
better said, lack of healthcare, is easily verified by anyone who has
access to the internet (Cubans on the island do not have this
luxury—internet access is available only to the elite). There, anyone
can view actual photographs and read first-hand accounts of the filth
and lack of medicine and medical supplies that plagues virtually every
hospital and clinic in Cuba available to the average Cuban citizen. Mr.
Moore, finding these actualities inconvenient to his storyline, prefers
to perpetuate the propaganda put out by the Cuban dictatorship and shows
you only the healthcare that is available to communist party officials
and tourists. Moore, who is not as dumb as he looks, is fully aware of
these inequalities, but chooses instead to disseminate the lies and
distortions that continually hurt the Cuban population at large. Michael
Moore and his Cuban communist friends all enjoy personal freedom and
access to exceptional medical care. To the rest of the Cubans who must
suffer under the yoke of communist oppression and medical apartheid, Mr.
Moore’s intentional omission of facts simply says; let them eat cake!
Sicko
is just another example of the left’s bigoted and elitist posture
towards people enslaved by leftist dictatorships. Moore would like you
to believe that he is a champion of the downtrodden and the exploited,
but the reality is that he is part of the reason millions of Cuban
citizens continue to be subjugated and exploited by the ruling communist
elite. From their limousines and private jets, Michael Moore and those
like him lament what they call the ghastly US embargo on Cuba, all the
while ignoring the atrocities committed by their hero, Fidel Castro, on
the Cuban people. The truth is that Michael Moore and his leftist
brethren have no concern for the well-being of the Cuban people; their
only concern is their own welfare and the promotion of their leftist
political ideologies. That it hurts the Cuban people is of no
consequence to them. Perhaps Cubans are not high enough on their
evolutionary scale to warrant the entitlement of full-fledged human
rights.
This
elitist attitude is not new among the left, though they have done an
effective job of cloaking their bigotry. Nevertheless, their total
disregard for the welfare of the Cuban people speaks volumes about who
they really are and what they really think of Cuba. Like modern-day
Marie Antionettes, Michael Moore and those of his ilk subscribe to an
elitist self-indulgence, caring only for themselves, their own comfort,
and the advancement of their beliefs and philosophies. They have no
concern for the Cubans that are languishing under a totalitarian
dictatorship; they want to sip their mojitos and enjoy the island’s
pristine beaches without having to worry about such unpleasant topics.
Emulating 18th century French aristocracy, these haughty
patricians have no interest for the daily struggle that common
Cubans must endure to feed their families. Instead, they raise a toast
to the island’s dictator and compliment him on his dubious societal
advances, apathetic to the inhumane conditions that the vast majority of
Cubans must live in.
Although
Moore is fully aware of the cruelties inflicted on the Cuban people by
Castro’s heinous government, it is obvious that it does not bother him.
He is more than willing to look the other way and accept whatever the
despot’s propaganda machine spits out to hide the sad state of affairs
on the island. Apparently, Mr. Moore knows what is best for Cuba and its
people better than the eleven million who have to deal with, and live
under, the dreadful conditions that exist on the island. When pressed
about the truth of life in Cuba, Moore prefers to skip the topic,
reverting instead to some bland drivel that people have “various
levels of freedom around the world.” If he were to answer the
question honestly and not hide his obvious bigotry, he would have most
likely said that Cubans do not have the same freedom that he enjoys
because they are not smart enough or socially evolved enough to have it.
From its
inception, the premise behind communism and socialism is that average
people do not have the ability to make a decision for themselves. They
need the guidance and leadership of the State to tell them what to say,
what to think, what to wear, what to watch, what to read, what to eat,
when to sleep, when to work, and when to rest. This is elitism in its
most vile form—removing all rights to individual freedoms and thought.
Mr. Moore finds this type of tyranny readily acceptable for the Cuban
people. Of course, such a system would never work for him—he needs to
pursue his art and considers himself too good and too smart to have his
free expression stifled. For the repressed population of Cuba, however,
he finds it a viable and just form of governance that supposedly (as he
reads the cue cards provided to him by the Cuban Ministry of the
Interior) provides the most basic needs to its people.
Although
Moore values his freedom dearly, and would never relinquish it for the
benefit of the State, he expects Cubans to continue doing so. By
shilling for the Castro dictatorship, he becomes a willing accomplice to
the forty-eight years of gross violations of human rights committed by
Castro’s tyrannical dictatorship since taking power in January of 1959.
Michael Moore may consider
himself too clever to be found out, but the millions of Cubans who crave
liberty and justice have his number. Those people who he does not deem
worthy of justice will continue to struggle and fight for the day when
they are finally free of oppression. Michael Moore may feel superior and
more worthy of freedom than mere Cubans, but they have something he has
never had: Integrity.
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