If You Have Doubted the Democrats Have a Socialist Agenda, Take a Look At This Video of Maxine Waters

We have preached and preached that the Democrat’s agenda reeks of socialism. Now, Maxine Waters, who has a history of embracing communists, lets it slip:

In the book, “Useful Idiots, How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First,” Mona Charen recalls Maxine’s apology letter to…Fidel Castro:

Castro has always played the race card in relations with the United States and has courted black Americans skillfully. He has also made his island a refuge for criminals who style themselves “political prisoners” in the U.S. One such was Joanne Chesimard, who in 1973 murdered a police officer in New Jersey. She was sentenced to life in prison, but escaped in 1979, changed her name to Assata Shakur, and made her way to Cuba. There she dines out on her “persecution” by the American criminal justice system, regaling Latin American and European visitors with her experiences. At the same time, people whose only crime was to attend Mass or try to publish a free newspaper paper unlamented in Castro’s prison.

As Jay Nordlinger reported in National Review, Shakur was the subject of a misunderstanding between Fidel Castro and California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Waters had voted for a measure calling for the extradition of “Joanne Chesimard.” Only later did Waters discover that Chesimard was Assata Shakur. Abashed, Waters wrote a truckling letter to Castro personally explaining that she had no idea these women were one and the same and would never have voted as she did if she had known. She went on to decry the “Republican leadership” in the House of Representatives for “deceptive intent” in using the old name, and added that the 1960s and 1970s had been “a sad and shameful chapter of our history” when “vicious and reprehensible acts were taken against” people like Shakur, forcing them to “flee political persecution.” It’s difficult to say which part of this letter is the most disgusting: the “apology” by a sitting member of the United States Congress to a brutal dictator; the suggestion that it was somehow “vicious and reprehensible” for the U.S. to convict and imprison a murderer; or the notion that a country like Cuba was a refuge from “political persecution” when, in fact, Cuba is one of the world’s leading practitioners of political persecution?

Then in the Elian Gonzales case, she was all for sending the boy back to Cuba.