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Lefty hypocrites’ revolting Cuba vacation is par for the communist course

“Socialism,” the great Winston Churchill said, “is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”

“Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

In that last part, the prime minster got it wrong. 

There’s misery aplenty in any socialist system, but in no sense is that misery shared equally. 

Quite the contrary: Members of the ruling class in places like Cuba, North Korea or the old Soviet Union live wildly privileged lives compared to the “workers and peasants” over whom they rule.

That was illustrated this weekend — partly as tragedy, partly as farce — when a delegation of leftists from the anti-American Code Pink and other groups visited Havana to support Cuba’s totalitarian regime.

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The Code Pink crowd, stacked with upper-class white women, flew first class on a chartered jet, unselfconsciously issuing press statements from their extra-wide and cushy seats.

Upon arrival they were chauffeured to Havana’s Gran Hotel Bristol, a luxury lodging operated by the Cuban government for select foreign guests — and off-limits to ordinary Cubans, other than those employed to change the sheets and scrub the toilets. 

There the visiting socialists slept in air-conditioned comfort,........

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