The fact that he’s Italian doesn’t help, either. (…)
Rick Santorum is probably the loudest “social conservative” currently in American politics, and many of his loudest opponents are self-defined socialists. I’m suspicious of anything with the word “social” in the title. That’s because I’m antisocial. For me, politics isn’t so much about what sort of society I want to live in as much as what sort of people I want to avoid. I consider myself a misanthropic individualist, but lately many collectivists have taken to depicting anyone who resists the blind herd’s undertow as a “sociopath,” so it’s fine to call me that if it makes you feel better about your weak-ass conformist sheepishness.
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Actually — and neither of us can believe I’m saying this — I’d like Santorum better if he let his utterly invisible “Italian” off the chain once in a while.
