Rick Santorum: All this concern for the so-called 'Middle Class' is for... (deep breath) MARXISTS!

[ck4829]

Rick Santorum says the term “middle class” is “Marxism talk” since America doesn’t have any classes. “Since when in America do we have classes?” Santorum asked a Republican gathering in Lyon County, Iowa, “There’s no class in America.” He added that the GOP, unlike Democrats,“values the dignity of every human life,” and therefore shouldn’t use the term—which he has actually used repeatedly.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-term-middle-class-marxism-talk

I always wonder if the true intention of these guys for getting rid of communism is not about human rights, but about returning capitalism to it's 12-16 hour workdays with quarters being used as wages, you know, real unregulated capitalism.

[Enrique]

1. just what America needs

phony semantics.

[PowerToThePeople]

2. omg.

[leftstreet]

3. LOL...later that day 50 people Google 'marxism' n/t

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Yeppers. And actually that's a good thing...........

Talk about it some more you proto-fascist bastards. The more people learn about it, the more Marxist they become.

[Starry Messenger]

4. Your last sentence is exactly right, ck4829

It was never about human rights.

[KamaAina]

5. Marxists have a name for the middle class.

The bourgeoisie. And they don't have a whole lot of concern for it.

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Probably petit bourgeoisie comes closer.......

They're not the real owners in society, they just support the owners. Until they support the working class.

Actually, IMO, "middle class" has morphed itself into more of an economic status term. It leaves out most of the social and political connotations that working class has.

But as to Santorium's statement, he's an idiot. An uneducated idiot at that.

[Zoeisright]

6. Why is anyone paying attention to that blithering idiot?

Frothy is as dumb as a rock, and just about as appealing.

[reformist2]

14. Well, he did win 11 primaries/caucuses in 2012, and is one of the leaders of the GOP.

[tanyev]

7. Pay no attention to the 1% behind the curtain.

[surrealAmerican]

10. Well, he certainly has no class.

As for the US, you would have to somehow believe that rich people and poor people had exactly the same concerns for this assertion to be true. I don't think many people would agree with him there.

[DevonRex]

11. Marxism is a helluva lot better than what he's been offering.

Which is nothing unless you're rich. Or still wear a fucking coonskin cap and think you're Daniel Boone or something and can hack a living out of some imaginary frontier.

In which case you belong in a facility that Rick Santorum doesn't want to pay for. So that living you're hacking out would be under a bridge with some newspapers for a blanket at night.

[reformist2]

12. The Dying GOP: you know your party is over when you can't even use the term "middle class" anymore!

[hrmjustin]

13. I wonder if this guy really thinks he is going to be nominated for president.

[reformist2]

15. In the "wait long enough and it'll be your turn" GOP, he is next in line...

[hrmjustin]

16. This is true but they have to know that he is a sure looser.

[Demo_Chris]

17. He makes his money saying outrageous things that appeal to the fringe. nt