Bernie Refuses To Denounce Venezuelan Dictator, Failure Of Socialism

Things continue to deteriorate in Venezuela much to the dismay of American communists who saw the Latin American nation as a socialist utopia…

Socialist Bernie Sanders planted his flag in the Democratic party well before he formally announced that he would be running for president in 2020 earlier this week.

The party has become the equivalent of a crazy house these days after Hillary’s stinging loss and now is little more than a gaggle of conspiracy theorists, race-baiters, con artists and socialists who will be battling to outdo each other in terms of extremism in what promises to be an epic primary contest.

Long relegated to the fringes for obvious reasons, Comrade Bernie was able to exploit an unpredictably successful challenge of Clinton in 2016 to promote his socialist views which have now been embraced in some form by every candidate looking to appeal to an entitled, historically ignorant millennial base who according to polls and surveys, believe that socialism/communism are viable in the United States.

But Bernie has some problems that less ideological candidates don’t and that is a fondness for Marxists and Latin American dictators from the infamous Fidel Castro to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro who is fighting to maintain control over his ruined country.

Despite widespread bipartisan condemnation of Maduro, a corrupt and repressive thug whose goons have tortured and killed political enemies and an ultimatum from the Trump administration that he must go, Bernie refuses to join calls for the despot’s ouster.

Via The Washington Free Beacon, “Sanders Refuses to Call For Maduro to Step Down, Won’t Say Explicitly If He Is a Dictator”:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) refused during an interview this week to call on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to step down and would not explicitly say whether he considered Maduro a dictator.

Univision’s Jorge Ramos asked the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday whether he considers National Assembly president Juan Guaido the legitimate president of Venezuela.

“No. I think what has to happen right now—I think there are serious questions about the recent election. There are many people who feel it was a fraudulent election, and I think the United States has got to work with the international community to make sure that there is a free and fair election in Venezuela,” Sanders responded.

Ramos followed by asking whether Sanders thinks Maduro is a dictator and if he should step down.

“I think clearly he has been very, very abusive. That is a decision of the Venezuelan people, so I think, Jorge, there’s got to be a free and fair election,” Sanders said.

Senator Sanders is putting himself on the wrong side of history by refusing to call for Maduro to go because it would be an admission that socialism has failed miserably in yet another country.

He also possibly sees Maduro as a brother in arms which some may suggest based on videos of a much younger Bernie that surfaced this week and have been making the rounds online where he stood up for dictators, suggested that Ronald Reagan was a fascist and praised the Soviet system after his 1980s trip there.

Some Dems are already grumbling about Sanders and his stance including some in the key swing state of Florida where there is exists a loathing of socialism among many in the Latino population who understand first hand the horrors that it brings.

Florida Democrats are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for refusing to call Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a dictator — a politically explosive issue in the nation’s biggest swing state.

Sanders also would not say whether he considered Venezuela’s assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, as the nation’s interim president, which is the position of the United States and a majority of Latin American countries European countries.

Both of Sanders’ positions play into the hands of President Trump and the GOP, say Democrats. The president just held a rally in Miami on Monday to denounce Maduro and socialism, an appeal to the state’s growing block of Venezuelan-American voters. Many Venezuelans have flocked to the state as the country’s economy crashed and repression increased.

Democrats, already alarmed that Trump’s inroads with Venezuelans could help him peel off an otherwise-reliable Democratic voting bloc in a toss-up state, were quick to denounce Sanders’ comments.

Look for the 2020 election to be a referendum on socialism, especially if Bernie emerges as the nominee.