WATCH: Cuban National Shows What REAL Appreciation For American Living Looks Like

Bernie Sanders once infamously posted an op-ed on his Senate page, citing several leftist countries as a better example of the American dream that America itself. This guy would laugh in Bernie’s face.

Michael Moore once made a documentary telling the whole world that Cuba is a far better and more benevolent country than America could ever be. He gave the usual arguments about education and health care, and painted a rosy picture of how well-off everyone in Cuba was, and how much dignity they have.

Remember, the concept of ‘alienation of labor’ is one of the lynch-pin arguments in Karl Marx’s proposal of Communism.

Greatly simplified, his argument sees 4 ways in which working for wages is demeaning to the human condition broadly, and the individual worker personally. It covers things like lack of control over what is produced; working from necessity feels ‘coerced’ and not ‘free’; work focused on mere survival removes the ‘human essence’; and a competitive work environment leads to isolation.

Keep that idea in your head as you watch this video, and consider this Cuban man’s experience in America a real-world test of that hypothesis.

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More patriotic than any leftist in this country. Congratulations! 🥳🪅🎉 pic.twitter.com/Knf5n78Qey

— Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) January 7, 2026

The video itself:

More patriotic than any leftist in this country. Congratulations! 🥳🪅🎉 pic.twitter.com/Knf5n78Qey

— Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) January 7, 2026

Note particularly what he says about his experience of living under both Cuba’s system and the American system where, you can tell by his work clothes, he’s wearing a UPS uniform.

First, he compares the taxes taken here versus what was taken in Cuba.

Then he talks about the emotional significance of this first American check of which he’s so very proud that he filmed the ‘unboxing’ as he opened it. He kissed the check, and read for the first time it on camera. He is obviously moved with emotion as he says:

‘This is my first hourly paycheck that I feel every hour counted. That every hour has had an importance in my life. And I know I can work hard for something. This is an emotion that I can’t compare with anything. Because I never had it in my country. In Cuba that emotion doesn’t exist.

Lived experience is more than a cudgel employed by activists to bully legislators into obedience to whatever the current political fad might be. Lived experience, is the laboratory test of whether political theories perform as advertised.

Does this newly-minted American seem to be suffering from the ills Marx tried to fix in proposing Communism? Or does the guy who left Communism on the other side of the Straits of Florida sound strangely like a ‘liberated’ worker?

Is it possible that the prescribed ‘cure’ to solve the ‘ills’ of the working world was, in fact worse than the illness he set out to save?

In the eyes of at least one man who’s lived in both systems… yes.

Could this be an instance of ‘Anecdotes are not evidence’?

Perhaps. But, aside from instances of political asylum in a non-extradition country, is it really objectively true to call this guy’s reaction a one-off, when countless makeshift rickety rafts setting out across 70 miles of shark-infested waters all seem to be headed in the same direction?