Successful Revolution

Comparing the revolutionary climate in Cuba under Machado with the current revolutionary situation in America. Regimes in power have three choices:

A. Attention to civil liberties (in which case they will lose elections)
B. Half-way measures (that incite more rebellion)
C. Throw them "up against the wall" (Castro's option)

American political prisoners (a half-way measure) strips the veneer off the despotic regime that rules America.