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handmade34

(22,756 posts) Sun Jan 8, 2012, 06:51 PM Jan 2012

oh, the irony... of Santorum's theocracy

"Rick Santorum, who wants a U.S. theocracy, says sure, bomb Iran because it’s a theocracy"

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/07/seeking-to-reverse-jfk-santorum-marries-catholicism-and-politics/?hpt=hp_c4

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rick-santorum-sounds-alarm-over-iranian-theocracy-20120108,0,7144004.story

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oh, the irony... of Santorum's theocracy (Original Post) handmade34 Jan 2012 OP

But Iran isn't the right KIND of theocracy. Jackpine Radical Jan 2012 #1

Christian and Corporate State pbrower2a Jan 2012 #2

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. But Iran isn't the right KIND of theocracy.

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Sun Jan 8, 2012, 06:53 PM

Jan 2012

pbrower2a

(132 posts)

2. Christian and Corporate State

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Sun Jan 8, 2012, 07:03 PM

Jan 2012

The "right" sort of government for Rick Sanctimonious would be a Christian and Corporate State.

The "Corporate" part would be that government would represent economic interests instead of the People. Wait a minute -- isn't that what the grandfather of Rick Santorum fled Italy to get away from?

It needs plenty of cheap labor and cannon fodder to enrich elites and of course wage aggressive warfare to extend the domain of American (corporate) power. Thus it would outlaw abortion, contraception, and homosexuality.

No thanks.

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