After my recent post about my struggle to even get to a starting point on understand the issues of the current election, another friend posts a link to an old article from The Atlantic about the deliberate obfuscation of politics by the American media. It certainly explained a lot to me.

Unfortunately, I never really got a handle on understanding Rick Santorum. At the time, I had a rabid Santorum-hater as a Facebook friend (someone who has since un-friended for completely unrelated reasons) and I got a daily does of bile and slurs (such as the Dan Savage "definition"). I also had a vocal Santorum supporter friended on FB, but I was consistently disappointed in trying to get real answers from him - he seemed more interested in campaign slogans.