Naomi Klein said they view the Pope as “Bernie Sanders in a white dress”. They are terrified of someone who actually ‘walks the walk’ .
]]>A slight caveat: According to Snopes, Pope Francis isn’t a former chemistry professor. A college education was not something someone from his lower class background could aspire to in the Argentina of his time. What he has is essentially a 2 year community college certificate qualifying him to be a chemistry lab technician. Still, that’s considerably more than the Republicans criticizing him have.
That said, I am enjoying the right wing meltdown. Us lefties have our own problem with the Pope’s views on birth control and the place of women in the church, but we’re smart enough to not get into a pissing match with a man who has 1.2 billion *actual* followers (as versus Twitter followers or Facebook followers). This is like watching moths slamming against the windshield of the Papal popemobile. It doesn’t hurt the Pope, and turns them into road kill.
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