Rick Santorum has become increasingly fractious and hyperbolic. The professional 365-day a year Tea Party candidate permanently running for the Republican nomination for president is quickly revealing the effects of living in a silo where the only voice you hear is your own.
Last week, Santorum told a group of young anti-choice activists in Texas that progressives “make it uncomfortable for students who come to Austin to shower at a Young Men’s Christian Association, YMCA, gym.â€
And now, speaking in Iowa over the weekend, Santorum apparently began to advocate for Marxism — ironically railing against the very word.
“Don’t use the term the other side uses,” Santorum ranted. “Who does Barack Obama talk about all the time? The middle class. Since when in America do we have classes? Since when in America are people stuck in defined areas called a class? That’s Marxism talk.”
Santorum called the idea of having a middle class, “dividing America.”
“Stop it. There’s no class in America.”
Were Santorum actually to do his homework, he would realize that Marxism and communism are based on the idea of an ultimately classless society — the very words he insists on using to define his vision of America.
“Stop it,” Santorum says. “There’s no class in America.”
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Right Wing Watch notes Santorum has used the term “middle class” repeatedly.