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Wow, I wish I could say that I was surprised that a book like this exists. I remember a friend of my wife telling us upon his announcement that his wife was pregnant that they would raise their child to be a good Democrat! This is NOT something to brag about, folks. I mean, Mommy's a Democrat because she's an idiot who ignores all the evidence and doesn't mind giving Republicans chance after chance to fuck up Iraq even more. Mommy's a Democrat because she doesn't mind seeing American GIs get killed in a foreign country in a war they shouldn't be fighting. Mommy's a Democrat because she's too thick to think for herself in a world where we're all programmed to think in binary. Ones and zeroes. Blacks and whites. Democrats or Republicans. I keep thinking of that stupid bumper sticker saying: "If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention!" There are just too damn many people who are not pissed off. I don't care if the Dems were powerless in Congress before this year--what about protests? What about speaking out loudly against things worth speaking out loudly against? Real American leaders would have stood up and filibustered every damn legislation in order to draw attention to the illegal war. But did the Dems lift a finger? Sure, Ted Kennedy got all red in the face a couple of times, but doesn't he do that every Friday night, anyway? Sure, John Conyers had hearings in the basement to spite the Republicans, but ultimately, he took impeachment off the table. What's really horrible about this book is that it teaches kids to trust one political party over another. Kids should not be introduced to politics until they are older. Opinions formed as pre-teens can be the hardest to change. You're literally brainwashing your kid by showing him this book. How is this book any different than books extremists use to teach kids to hate Christians? How is this book any different from the kind of programming that kids see when they walk into a corner store and see cigarette ads? It's just as insidious and just as wrong. We don't need more "two-party" thinkers to save the world. We need people who aren't going to fall back on the same old politics and think for themselves. Go ahead and order that book by clicking the pic above. Click on that pic a LOT so this post shows up in their referrer logs. Then they'll come here and see this post and know that teaching a kid to be a member of any political party is terrible. Teach your kids to think for themselves and to ask questions and to even question the answers to those questions. This is the path to sane judgment. Trusting a leader because of his party alone is a mistake. Look at what happened when Republicans thought they were voting for a conservative in George W. Bush. They got a big government, big-spending, war monger who looks at 18 year-old black kids as canon fodder. Not exactly conservative values, but good old John McCain supports his president because Bush is a Republican! It's amazing what you find when you actually click on those Google ads. Why don't you go see what you can find? (HINT! HINT!)]Orignal From: POLITICALLY PROGRAMMING THEM YOUNG
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