Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders hopes a new speechwriter, a former apologist for the socialist government in Venezuela, will help propel his 2020 campaign to victory.
Sanders has hired David Sirota to write speeches and act as a communications consultant as the Democratic-Socialist senator continues his quest to win the Democratic nomination for 2020, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.
Sirota exhibited his devotion to Venezuela’s brand of socialism during the years of left-wing strongman Hugo Chavez, whose “brand of socialism achieved real economic gains,” according to Sihota.
The journalist was a contributor to Salon magazine in 2013 when he wrote an essay remembering Chavez, who had recently died, praising the despot’s political legacy as an “economic miracle.”
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Venezuela was thriving before oil embargos by anti-socialist countries like the US destroyed them.
ReplyDeleteThere's a word for it. I won't use it. Let's just say that Venezuela got GooGoo rich on their subprime crude that requires a lot of sophisticated refining to bring to market. The Dictatorial Government took the quick profits and did not invest it in the home based infrastructure to make it a more viable product and haved created jobs for the people. They are moving the State coffers out of the country and soon they will not even be able to pay the military that is the only divide between they and the people. I am sure they will have rich retirements in exile in Russia and we will be yet again strapped with humanitarian aid and setting up yet another fledgling Democracy in a backwards breeding nation of superstitious peoples.
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ReplyDeleteFor Bernie, that's a feature not a bug!