Greed

Some have expressed surprise at President Obama’s rather neutral remarks about Fidel Castro but I am not one of them. Over the years my liberal friends have shown a tolerance toward Communist regimes. I recall one person who was well informed that thought more highly of Gorbachev than of Reagan and even today many liberals credit the breakdown of the Soviet Union to Gorbachev. These are the people who became apoplectic when Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire. They feared that such talk would start WW 3. There have been many examples of liberals visiting communist leaders and sometimes praising the social programs they developed. It is a little ironic that most of these people became very wealthy under the capitalist system and they accumulated much of their money during the 80’s which they called the decade of greed.