Who could object?

A typical politician would never understand:

Writing in The New Statesman, British parliamentarian John McDonnell, the Right Honorable Gentleman from 1968, offers high praise for Cuban communism and demonstrates a level of credulity not seen since John Reed vacationed in Moscow. But don't mention Moscow, because, as McDonnell bizarrely writes, "unlike Stalin's Russia there have never been any Cuban gulags."* What's not to like, he asks, about a country that provides "free prescriptions, free care for the elderly, free university education."

You are reasonable healthy, have something at least vaguely resembling a real education and have all of that provided to you at a nominal cost to you. The only catch is that you do not have the freedom to produce with that education that el jefe maximo so generously gave you the opportunity to pursue. Cuba is progressive in the communist world in that it has the most educated and healthiest proletarian labors in the world. Not unlike the wait staff in Austin, Texas**.

True political animals tend to have never had any serious ambition to get wealthy through any means other than being a powerbroker or by being an advisor to one.

*Of course the Cubans wouldn't have gulags. Ellos hablan espanol, no ruso! However, they most certainly do have labor camps.

**Not that I have ever been to Austin, but that's the reputation, anyway.