There is no mudslinging or million-dollar war chest. No party nominations, dirty tricks or battles for key endorsements.Isn't this clever? Our elections are messy. And sometimes it looks ugly. Cuba's are "orderly" and don't have those revolting features of our elections like mudslinging. Of course, one of those revolting features is that the elections in America are real.
In fact, there's no campaigning at all — and the most famous candidate, Fidel Castro, hasn't been seen in public for almost 18 months.
Still, more than 90 percent of voters are expected to turn out Sunday for parliamentary elections — a key step in determining whether the ailing Castro remains as head of state.
The 81-year-old Castro is up for re-election to the legislature, as is his younger brother Raul, who has run the government since July 2006.
Fidel Castro, who is recovering from an undisclosed illness, has been the island's unchallenged leader since the 1959 revolution that overthrew dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Cuba'a elections are a sham that go through the motions of democracy without being democracy.
I find it revolting the news organizations can go through the motions of reporting without actually reporting.
I find it even more revolting that so many Western so-called "progressives" pretend to believe the pretend reporting about Cuba's pretend democracy.
UPDATE: Via Instapundit, more pretend reporting. If our enemies did it directly, we'd call it "propaganda." Insert fawning and sympathetic reporters between the source and the viewers and suddenly it is "news." Or at least we pretend that's what it is.
