The reason they were so angry about same sex marriage is they very literally believed it was a big step toward societal breakdown
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This analysis is total fucking garbage from the get-go and oozes copious quantities of disingenuous charity for social conservatives
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Either Freddie has never actually spoken to a genuine hardcore social con or he's deliberately distorting them to, as they say, "punch left"
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Like what is this weak sauce garbagepic.twitter.com/33RtLaX4I2
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Among Twitter Lefties Santorum is and always was "fringe" so maybe he thinks that Santorum was a joke among social cons too, like a rube
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Santorum was "fringe" in liberal politics bc he said what social cons genuinely think out loud
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Freddie is probably aware big-money conservatives think the gay sex panic is dumb and cynically exploit it and stupidly generalizes this
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This is what ticks me off about the unexamined parsing of "leftists vs neoliberals vs the Right", like the latter is monolithic
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Genuine committed social cons really did believe Santorum's worldview that the "gay agenda" was about to destroy societal order
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If they didn't believe that there would be no frenzied high-voltage energy source for the money conservatives to cynically exploit
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This is the whole problem with fuckers like this, they don't take the Right seriously, they don't fear it, it doesn't interest them
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The real players are Capital vs Labor, Neoliberalism vs Marxism, DNC vs DSA, everything else is superstructure
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The idea that religion or race or gender or any other force might have an animating drive of its own is beyond them
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