{"id":136487,"date":"2018-05-18T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136487"},"modified":"2018-05-26T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:12:03","slug":"if-the-socialism-fits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/if-the-socialism-fits.html","title":{"rendered":"If the Socialism fits …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because clearly<\/i> Jesus was wildly in favor of offshore tax havens.<\/p>\n

If Fox and Varney & Co. Aren’t careful in their tone-deaf, knee-jerk denunciations, people might actually begin to associate “socialism” with positive things, like caring for the poor and powerless.<\/p>\n


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\nFox attacks Pope Francis for making “authoritarian socialism … part of Catholic doctrine”<\/a><\/span>
\nStuart Varney: Pope Francis’ denunciation of offshore tax havens suggests “we now believe that authoritarian socialism is part of Catholic doctrine”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because clearly Jesus was wildly in favor of offshore tax havens. If Fox and Varney & Co. Aren’t careful in their tone-deaf, knee-jerk denunciations, people might actually begin to associate “socialism” with positive things, like caring for the poor and powerless. Fox attacks Pope Francis for making “authoritarian socialism … part of Catholic doctrine” Stuart … Continue reading “If the Socialism fits …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,528,77,27,110],"tags":[1618,1314,1358],"class_list":["post-136487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-religion","category-religious-zanies","tag-capitalism","tag-fox","tag-pope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stuart-varney.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39029,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/stay-classy-jim-varney.html","url_meta":{"origin":136487,"position":0},"title":"Stay Classy, Stuart Varney","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Oct-13 6:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Business host Stuart Varney appears to be more than happy to see federal employees out of their jobs for the time being. \u00a0Be they janitors, aides, park rangers, researchers, secretaries ... they're all ticks on the body politic (or at least on Jim's back) and deserve to starve.' 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