Supporting PC crooks: So much for the poor

In an earlier post, I mentioned the Evangelical influence in elections, including that in Brazil.

So now, Lifesite posts that Pope Francis is backing the crooked ex president (who is also pro abortion), because... ????

August 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has recently met in Rome with some of the allies of the former Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, who is now jailed for corruption. The Pontiff expressed his support for Lula da Silva, even allegedly comparing his imprisonment with the persecution of Jesus Christ. On 2 August, Pope Francis welcomed three allies of Lula da Silva, former Brazilian Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim, former Argentine Minister Alberto Fernandez, and Chilean Minister Carlos Ominami. At that meeting, the Pope spoke with his guests about the situation of the former President of Brazil who ruled eight years from 2003 until 2011. The supportive delegation called attention to the plight of Lula, who is now imprisoned for his corruption which his supporters claim to be an unjust form of “lawfare.”

 he apparently gave lots of money for social welfare and rode in on an economic bubble, which later collapsed of course.

What went wrong with Brazil’s economy? The Lula model may bear some blame. But not because it is inherently flawed.

of course not. Socialism is never inherently flawed, until it bleeds profits and the economy collapses.

Rather, it is a model that, while relatively easy to implement when economic conditions are favorable, demands a level of political discipline hard to sustain when conditions sour. Like most governments, the Lula administration could not resist the temptation to spend freely in the boom years and not save for harder times. Not long after Rousseff took office, commodity prices dropped worldwide, and growth rates dipped sharply. Government revenues fell, though budgetary obligations and expenditures remained largely unchanged.

and like most demagogues, he was getting rich on the sly. how rich is he? Forbes suggests he is "close" to being a billionaire.

BBC article on his corruption issues.

ForeignPolicy on his corruption

And this article: he pretends to be a martyr of course and the bbc article states he was "caught up" in the scandal.

Right.

all of this reminds me of something I wrote about awhile back: That the bishops here were busy condemning Duterte for his "war on drugs", but then they met with our crooked ex president for a photo op. She is a friend of Bill, and got out of jail mainly due to George Clooney's wife (a major Hillary donor) who pushed her case to the UN Human rights court as political, not corruption.