There is the image - the story - the narrative and there is the truth - the facts - the data. Liberals only care about the narrative - they do not seem to be mentally inclined to process the truth. Witness the level to which global warming has taken over their thought processes. In Philosophy, this is Rhetoric versus Dialectic.
A lot of politicians have gushed over Fidel Castro's memory as news of his death was broadcast. Here is the truth from the London Daily Mail:
$120 million bed-hopping hypocrite: He claimed he lived on $25 a month. But Castro had 20 luxury homes, a private island, an 88ft yacht - and mistresses galore
Fidel Castro the restless revolutionary had no time for pleasure, despising holidays as ‘bourgeois’ and claiming to live in a fisherman’s hut. His only luxury was the cigars that he continually chomped.
Or so he insisted to fellow Cubans who endured decades of abject poverty, crumbling housing and food rationing during his long rule. However, the reality — carefully kept from public consumption thanks to his iron grip on the media and public discourse — was very different.
A prodigious womaniser and food connoisseur who kept some 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean — including a private island he used to visit on his beautiful yacht — Castro was a complete fraud.
The man who spent his life railing against the excesses of capitalism lived like a king — and a very debauched one at that.
Quite the difference - the world is a far better place for his passing.
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