I just heard a wingnut give the stupidest explanation ever for Western European type socialism

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I dunno about that one, but My Favorite Wingnut was on about how

the socialists were ruining Europe and causing the economic problems in the Mediterranean countries, etc. & I said that it was basically the predatory international bankers who were doing it. He actually agreed, and then explained that the predatory bankers were all socialists. I thought this was one of the craziest notions I had ever heard--still do, in fact, but I ventured out into the online Tea Party universe & found that the Socialist Bankers meme is all over the place out there. The idea is no less nuts, but he was just passing on the common lunacy that pervades his environment.