Today in Rick Santorum Says Something Stupid

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Letting the family break down and in fact encouraging it and inciting more breakdown through this whole redefinition of marriage debate, and not supporting strong nuclear families and not supporting and standing up for the dignity of human life. Those lead to a society that's broken.

...If you think that we can be a society that kills our own, and that disregards the family and the important role it plays, and doesn't teach moral values and the important role of faith in the public square, and then expect people to be good, decent and moral when they behave economically, if you look at the root cause of the economic problems that we're dealing with on Wall Street and Main Street I might add, from 2008, they were huge moral failings. And you can't say that we're gonna take morality out of the public square, morality out of our schools, God out of our schools, and then expect people to behave decently in a country that requires, capitalism requires some strong modicum of moral consciousness if it's gonna be successful.
LOL FOREVER.

You know, I actually agree with him that capitalism requires "some strong modicum of moral consciousness if it's gonna be successful," but I'm a lot less (not at all) concerned with the allegedly nefarious (positive) effects of same-sex marriage and single mothers and abortion and secularism than I am about corporations' VORACIOUS GREED and the EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS, which, apart from being immoral, break the fuck out of a capitalist system because workers can't afford to consume the products and services they're employed to provide.

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