Misunderstandings

The other day there was a small blurb in the newspaper, and virtually no mention on the evening news: Castro: Cuba's communism 'doesn't even work for us anymore'
I thought to myself: That's something you don't read everyday.

After 50 years since the revolution in Cuba, Fidel Castro seemed to concede that totalitarianism is a failure.   He calls it the "Cuban model," referring to the government controlling every aspect of the economic system.   Hey Fidel, I thought, welcome to reality; most of the world economies have known all along that Communism doesn't work.   And what is this "anymore" crap.  It never did work for Cuba.  They always depended on economic aid from other totalitarian regimes. 

 But not so fast Mr Blog Guy, reality, it seems is in the mind of the beholder.

Yesterday, Castro, 84 years old (and, apparently, back on his meds) stated that his words had been misunderstood.
Castro claims that his recent comment that Cuba’s economic model did not work was badly understood and that what he really meant was that "capitalism did not work."

Aha!

The lesson here is that an Ideologue cannot be trusted to see the truth, because they will disregard facts that do not support their belief.  I think it is called "cognitive dissonance."
The lyrics of the song say "Don't fall in love with a dreamer..." Perhaps it would have been better said to advise, "Don't fall in love with your dream. Period".