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Venezuelan activist: Socialist Hugo Chavez implemented what Bernie Sanders talks about
Fox News ^ | March 2, 2020 | Matt London

Posted on 03/02/2020 10:07:45 AM PST by karpov

Daniel Di Martino, a native-born Venezuelan freedom activist, had a strong warning for Americans ahead of the 2020 presidential election -- don't allow what happened to my country happen to yours.

"I was really shocked, when I came to the United State, less than 4 years ago, how the Democratic party went from a party that was supposed to be moderate to a party that embraced the ideas that I fled from," said Di Martino on "Fox and Friends" on Monday.

Di Martino was born in Venezuela in 1999 and left the country in 2016 to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Quantitative Economics, according to his website.

He recently wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Wire, telling the story of his grandfather, who immigrated to Venezuela in 1956 from Spain and thrived in the bustling free-market, Venezuelan economy.

"Venezuela in the 1950s was a country that received millions of immigrants from all over the world, such as my grandfather," he said on "Fox and Friends."

"[Venezuela] was prosperous, where even people without education could get a job and prosper," Di Martino explained, "Slowly but surely, socialism destroyed it and turned it into what it is today."

In Fox Nation's "The Unauthorized History of Socialism," Fox News anchor Bret Baier walks viewers through the sad history of Venezuela, and how the country, which used to be the wealthiest in Latin America, has become a failed state.

"The economy imploded and the country has collapsed to the point that it is generating more refugees now than the Middle East, than Syria," said Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in the Fox Nation show.

"Venezuelans elected people... that started implementing over-burdening business regulation, that imposed price controls

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; berniesanders; hugochavez; sanders; venezuela

1 posted on 03/02/2020 10:07:45 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov
I was really shocked, when I came to the United State, less than 4 years ago, how the Democratic party went from a party that was supposed to be moderate

The Democrat Party has not been moderate since before LBJ. Perhaps not since before Woodrow Wilson.


2 posted on 03/02/2020 10:09:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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3 posted on 03/02/2020 10:14:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: karpov

FOX - For Americans who only want to invest in Communism.


4 posted on 03/02/2020 10:15:37 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: karpov

Bernie needs to be the face of the Democrat/Socialist Party.

With him at the top of the ticket the GOP would have to not contest seats to lose.


5 posted on 03/02/2020 10:24:50 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ClearCase_guy

bttt


6 posted on 03/02/2020 10:26:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The Democrat Party has not been moderate since before LBJ. Perhaps not since before Woodrow Wilson its founding.
7 posted on 03/02/2020 10:55:35 AM PST by PIF (They came Costco and Trader Joes were MOBBED today.for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

The Democrat Party was founded by Thomas Jefferson.
I doubt he was a Communist.


8 posted on 03/02/2020 11:02:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Thomas Jefferson wanted to align our country towards revolutionary France, so he was not far off from communist.


9 posted on 03/02/2020 1:00:31 PM PST by jimmygrace
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Democratic Party of today is a far cry from the party of Thomas Jefferson or even from the party of the 1950s Democrats. We have never had our major academic institutions and our government so populated with socialists and communists as we do now. They have been teaching and forming the ideas of American children for more than 2 generations when it takes only one to entirely change a culture. The insanity is almost complete, politically and culturally. I find myself wondering if God, Himself, is not sick of how his plan for this world has been distorted with lies, envy and the lust for power. Maybe He is just not going to stand by and take it anymore. Disease and locusts have changed the course of history before. It definitely could happen again.


10 posted on 03/02/2020 1:02:53 PM PST by jazzlite (,)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Well since 1917 at least


11 posted on 03/02/2020 1:10:20 PM PST by PIF (They came Costco and Trader Joes were MOBBED today.for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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