He’s at least a confused life long inhabitant of a socialist country where the government has managed to paint capitalists as the reason there is income inequality, etc. He has bought into it, hook line and sinker it would appear.
His arguments are much like you’ll hear on MSNBC or see at Huffington Post or Salon or Slate.
Good point.
Are South Americans completely ignorant of Chile's economic turnaround since their Friedman-inspired reforms?
Well, yeah, of course. I won't dispute for one second that he's dedicated to liberation theology and associated false doctrines. But AFAIAC, that dedication doesn't explain his recent erratic and bizarre statements:
No, when I've seen him over the past week on Italian TV, listening to him in the original Italian, I've had a strong impression of a fumbling, mumbling and bumbling old guy -- not at all like the super-glib, self-assured, cagey and bombastic leftists you'll normally find at MSNBC and similar outposts of statism.
Put another way, I think that if Bergoglio still were no more than a standard-issue Jesuit Latino left-winger, his recent public pronouncements would at least have had an air of faux cogency and circumspection -- qualities that seem altogether missing nowadays.