David Venkesel-Sarot

David von Kessel-Sarot, also known as simply Vizo or DVKS, is a Lausán politician and biographer residing in the United Socialist States of Eldham; living in the town of Duckia in the State of Adalor.

He currently serves as the Chairman of the Wiki Reform Committee under the Commission of Culture, having done so since 261 TE, and is the USSE's designated Diplomatic Representative to the United Commonwealth.

Origins (46 T.E-256 T.E)
In Lore; David 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 who was also a spy for the Aldakanean National Insurrectionist Army, which was later obliterated by the Government forces.

Aged 19, 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 two centuries.

At the age of 32 Angelus temporarily settled in Urnu-Arrak in order to rest from a long few years of traveling. During his stay he made sure to visit as many libraries and culturally-significant places as possible because of his fascination with Earthling cultures. At some point he decided to finally get a job as he began struggling financially and was employed at a small retirement home inside the city. This decision ended up being important as the elder he was to take care of was no other than his former mentor; Maxwell Lazo.

The reunion wasn't as emotional as might've been expected. Maxwell by then was in his 70s without a leg or an eye, and suffered from Alzheimer's but Angelus remained dedicated. He cared for Maxwell for 5 years and throughout this time learned of the annihilation of the Socialist movement backhome, and the total collapse of Aldakan as he focused on research to try to help Maxwell's memory. He also found out that Maxwell had established a large orphanage in the middle of a forest in Yimmu-Audal, which Angelus showed much interest in as a half-Angel. And upon Maxwell's peaceful death in the year 83; Angelus was named the new head of the Lazo orphanage.

From 83 to 131 Angelus ran the Lazo orphanage and became widely popular in the rurals although under a different name. He greatly expanded the orphanage and made sure it was as comfortable as possible for everyone, offering good wages and a high quality of life there. This time was perhaps the calmest in his life but it ended with his resignation since, upon hearing of the formation of the Imperium, decided he wants to return to roaming the world and learning of its cultures.

His journey led him to the United Burgamerian Socialist Republic, the first Left-wing nation he had ever actually been in. But his stay was short as he heard of the distant lands of Eldham and was attracted to them because of his belief that Rathnir was either way doomed to a fate of despotic hegemony. And the events from this point until nearly 80 years later remain unknown.

After a long few decades of roaming around Eldham Angelus, by then aged 209, made an incredibly brief stay (no more than a month) 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 also only a month, 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 (256 T.E-Present)
Not long after he became a citizen, Van Sarot joined the Communist Party (CPUSSE) and announced his candidacy for the Central Committee in the elections of 256 T.E 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 260 T.E 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. From this point forward David stated he will never seek to be part of the Executive Government ever, to focus on becoming an SPA representative and a member of the Central Committee.

In 265 he announced his candidacy in the elections for the Central Committee, using his acronym "DVKS" to name his campaign. He promised dedication to the launching of new economic reforms under Commissioner of Industry Rosa Ortangon, to work to establish a party newspaper separate of the Red Star, to lead a new era of cultural prosperity, and to work with all, even those who disagreed with him. He also stated specifically that he was not a moderate or big-tent candidate, instead pointing out his devout constitutionalism, support for the people as the supreme rulers of the state, with the only moderate of his policies being his position on the issue of Unitarianism vs Federalism.

The Von Kessel Reforms (261 T.E-Present)
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 261.

In mid-259 T.E 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 in late 260 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" in late 261 T.E, and after an arduous campaign 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. It'd end up passing overwhelmingly successfully in a vote of 32-2, in a major victory.

After it became clear to him that he needed to do his campaigning in places outside of elections; in early 262 David released "The Idea of a Glorious Red Dawn: The Path to the Ideal Socialist State" as an open letter to the Communist Party detailing his own personal Socialist school of thought which he has personally named the "Xeroisidé-Valleidé" school of thought.

During the voting for the FAR Act; 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 led by Vyacheslav Von Kessel.

Diplomatic Career (262 T.E-Present)
Upon hearing of a planned re-establishment of the Diplomatic unit of the USSE's Government David enrolled in the University of Akaishiro in order to get a degree in diplomacy, using the opportunity to also start officially learning Lo'Oi. Only 3 months into his studies he was approached by Magerius to become one of the new generation of diplomats, which he gladly accepted, and thus in 262 finally achieving his dream of becoming a diplomat, being assigned to the United Commonwealth to establish friendly ties. This served convenient to David because of his great interest in the Commonwealth's history and mainly its politics and democracy. And not long after he arrived he attained citizenship, voting in the referendum on the monarchy which was conveniently held only 3 months into his mission. During one of his first few visits David adopted his son: Skott Zaragulov, who is running on the list of the Alliance of Social Democrats in the next elections for the Sejm.

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."

Initially supportive of an actively interventionist yet cooperative foreign policy, as time passed David has come to support instead the Socialism in One Country philosophy. Meaning that he now opposes any active intervention by the USSE, at least officially, with international Socialist movements and calling for a focus on cooperation with foreign powers no matter their ideology, believing that as long as they do not actively undermine the revolution then they can still be seen as allies. At the same time he has developed into a Lausán, and in addition a Serronan, Nationalist with hopes of one day seeing Serrona unified under the USSE.

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, even taking several private lessons to learn the language.