David Venkesel-Sarot

David Von Kessel-Sarot, commonly known by his in-game name "VizoMinecraft" and alternatively "Dave Van Sarot", is a Biographer and Activist residing in the United Socialist States of Eldham's town of Duckia. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Wiki Reform Committee under the Commission of Culture since August 7th.

Origins
In Lore; Dave Van Sarot was born as the "Angelus Diabolus" by the supreme being of the Nether and was sent to Rathnir after it understood he wasn't the kind of devil it wished for. He'd end up finding himself in the far-away Republic of Aldakan, a tyrannical Military Dictatorship, where he'd grow up an orphan and as an energetic student of Journalism, History, and Politics under the mentorship of Maxwell Lazo, a Libertarian Socialist activist.

At some point in his life, Angelus moved to Carvay in hopes of starting his career in politics, although the country by then was incredibly oligarchic, corrupt, and unstable in his view. He wouldn't stay there long as only a week after he moved in, Carvay began to rapidly decline and so he began roaming the world as a lone Vagabond for the next century until he found himself in Eldham.

During an incredibly brief stay (no more than three months) in Redoriv Angelus adopted a new name: "Dave Van Sarot". And following a short attempt to join the Statenland Forward party, Van Sarot abandoned the country after noticing the lack of activity in it, and continued onwards to Sylvania, where he stayed in for half a year, as after a short career as the head farmer of the town of Alzaria, he finally settled on joining the United Socialist States of Eldham upon noticing that it shares much of his political beliefs.

Political Beginnings in the USSE
Not long after he became a citizen, Van Sarot announced his candidacy for the Central Committee in the July 2023 Elections on a Pragmatic and Populist platform, and attended the inauguration of General Secretary Magerius Ukumari the same day, joining the Commission of Culture a day later. Van Sarot became one of the many "New Generation" candidates to run in the Central Committee election, but from the beginning his victory was not expected as he was in a field of 12 candidates, only 7 having the ability to win. He was eliminated on the first round after winning 8 votes, a single vote less than what was needed to continue to the second round. He accepted the results and immediately congratulated his fellow New Gen candidate; Vyacheslav Budyonny, later endorsing Kineox Von Kessel as he began setting his sights on the other upcoming elections for the USSE.

Following a short vacation and days of focusing on his writing of the biographies of General Secretaries Magerius and Rosa Ortangon; Van Sarot announced his candidacy for the August 2023 elections for the Supreme People's Assembly, running on the same platform as usual while announcing his support for fellow candidates Vyacheslav Von Kessel, Arika Ronango'O, and Ortangon as a self-declared "Pragmatic Populist" candidate. He'd end up losing the election on the first round.

At some point after the campaign, Dave was adopted by Pakartov Von Kessel to be his son, thus officially changing his name to "David Von Kessel-Sarot" and for the first time being a member of a real family. At the same time he began cooperating with his now-cousin Vyacheslav Von Kessel to truly start his wiki reforms for the USSE as he was appointed "Chairman of the Commission of Wiki Reform" on August 7th.

On July 30th David proposed the "Fair and Active Representation Act" as a referendum, proposing to limit the amount of offices one can hold. Making General Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Premier, SPA Representative, and Commissioner mutually exclusive positions. While a popular referendum, this put him at odds against Ortangon and Ronango'O as the two opposed the inclusion of Commissioners and the Representatives. The initial FAR Act either way passed with support from figures such as Aleksandr Serebra II, Kineox Von Kessel, Ren Serebra, and more in a vote of 29-7. But those opposing it also had an issue with the wording, which in the end would just lead to loopholes and thus making the act irrelevant. So on August 4th Arika proposed a Referendum on Constitutional Clarification, but excluded the clauses about the SPA and the Commissioners, which indeed angered David for he believed it made the whole referendum entirely pointless.

With Arika's proposal struggling to attain the needed amount of signatures to go to a vote; David took the opportunity and proposed the "Referendum on Constitutional Clarification, written in accordance to the original intentions of the FAR Act" on August 8th, and after an arduous day of campaigning which saw David personally speak with voters to support his proposal his version succeeded and was sent to a national vote while Arika's version was basically forgotten. Within the first day of the vote on the referendum it won 28 votes in favour with only 2 against, and several people who previously voted against the FAR Act switched sides. During the voting; David stated his support for Magerius' proposition to abolish term limits and, following a lengthy debate over it between several citizens, proposed a compromise which would include the introduction of a 1-term limit to the Deputy Secretary in exchange. As this compromise was not accepted by Magerius, upon the introduction of the proposal to the National vote David joined the opposition.

Xeroisidé-Valleidé
Van Sarot is the founder of the "Xeroisidé-Valleidé" school of thought, one uniquely combining many aspects of different Socialist ideologies from across the world. He is an advocate for the Dictatorship of the Masses, a Government mixing Autonomism and Unitarianism, and Democratic Centralism, seeing multi-party politics as useless when discourse can be had inside a single massive party. This view is contrasted by his support for the Unitist Socialist principle of "Conditional Electoralism", viewing violent revolution as a last resort and believing the path to revolution always depends on the circumstances of a nation. As a politician he seeks to actively consult with the people in order to bring about further reforms to the state and is staunchly opposed to autocracy and authoritarianism, while recognizing even his peers may follow these "terrible" ideologies. Consequently, he is a devoted Constitutionalist with the greatest example of this aspect of his ideology being his FAR Act.

He wrote that he also rejects interclassism and instead views the world in the form of two entities: the National Country (Dé’i Toxédélé Toxédé), representing the people, and the Political Country (Dé’i Fauto Toxédé), representing the oligarchical elites. And says that "It is the mission of the national country to overthrow the political country in order to create a genuine humanist democracy, united as one by nationality."

As a Pan-Serronan; Van Sarot supports the spreading of Socialism across the entire continent under the USSE, although still supporting independent socialist states to co-exist with it on Serrona. With this he is a proud Internationalist, supporting active interventionism by the USSE to help topple authoritarian/despotic regimes in order to assist with the establishment of fellow Socialist and Democratic states. Aditionally, he holds cooperation with other countries as the most valuable factor in foreign policy, utterly opposing any form of isolationism and viewing any bourgeoise who is willing to cooperate with the Revolution as an ally to it.

Max Gadidé (Cultural Patriotism)
Van Sarot, as a member of the Commission of Culture, is an outspoken advocate for cultural/historical conservation. Seeing the keeping of history as the most vital thing and denouncing the lack of available information about previous General Secretaries and influential figures of the USSE. Because of this, he decided to become the biographer of General Secretaries Magerius Ukumari and Rosa Ortangon in hopes of beginning a trend in the Commission of Culture's wiki team to further write down the history of the nation.

Part of his school of thought is the idea of "Cultural Patriotism" can be seen as reminiscent of the Tulipanist ideology's belief that the promotion of art and anything related to the cultures of Eldham will lead to international prosperity. Believing that art can serve to unify the many peoples of the world, and that learning to accept each other's cultures can bring a golden age of prosperity, at least to Eldham. He is a major advocate for the growth of the Lo'Oi language as part of his ideology, naming many of the important aspects of it in Lo'Oi.