{"id":25065,"date":"2012-01-04T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/you-keep-using-that-fascism-word.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:11:40","slug":"you-keep-using-that-fascism-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/you-keep-using-that-fascism-word.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;You keep using that &#39;fascism&#39; word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not think it means what you think it means.&quot;&quot;More and more dependency, more and more government \u2014 exactly what my grandfather left [Mussolini&#39;s Italy] in 1925.&quot; &#8212; Rick SantorumUm &#8230; Rick?  Fascism is not about increased dependency on government by the people.  And, trains-running-on-time canard or not, social welfare programs were not a hallmark of Mussolini&#39;s regime.  In fact, he was vehemently anti-socialist and anti-communist.Not that I expect Rick to actually pay much attention to history. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FGoogle-ChromeScreenSnapz305.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/01\/04\/397233\/rick-santorum-compares-social-welfare-programs-like-medicaid-to-fascism-in-iowa-speech\/'>Rick Santorum Compares \u2018Social Welfare Programs\u2019 Like Medicaid To Fascism In Iowa Speech<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRick Santorum delivered what sounded like a victory speech in Iowa last night, where he fell just eight votes short of victory to Mitt Romney. During his remarks, the former Pennsylvania senator said &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not think it means what you think it means.&quot;&quot;More and more dependency, more and more government \u2014 exactly what my grandfather left [Mussolini&#39;s Italy] in 1925.&quot; &#8212; Rick SantorumUm &#8230; Rick? Fascism is not about increased dependency on government by the people. And, trains-running-on-time canard or not, social welfare programs were not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/you-keep-using-that-fascism-word.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;You keep using that &#39;fascism&#39; word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27347,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/rick-warren-apparently-drinks-the-david-barton-kool-aid.html","url_meta":{"origin":25065,"position":0},"title":"Rick Warren apparently drinks the David Barton Kool-Aid","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Apr-12 4:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Barton is infamously doltish for arguing, chapter and verse (poorly and unorthodoxly interpreted, IMO) that government -- that is, collective, societal -- help for the poor among us is unfair, unjust, and un-Biblical. 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