What in God’s name is happening with this country? Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on the efforts of partisan political groups on both right and left to indoctrinate our youth. And, by youth, I’m talking about
- The Liberty Counsel whose spokesman says, “The entire cultural battle is over the children.”
- Jerry Falwell who sends e-mails to hundreds of thousands of students every week.
- Turn Your Back which is using
- The ACLU activism kits that show children how to lobby legislators.
- A book entitled “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed”.
- A 10 year old who says, “If you listen to liberals, they take away your dreams and hopes for the future.”
- A book entitled “No, George, No!” which points up Bush’s errors using cartoons.
- The Democratic National Committee’s “Kids for Kerry” program.
- On Halloween,
Why do we have such a need to make our
If we, as a nation, don’t lighten up soon and practice some of the virtues that made this country great, I fear for all of us.
3 comments:
No, you're not a nostalgic old fool, Al, you are simply recognizing the depths to which the politically motivated are now prepared to sink in this country. Similar 'indocrination' tactics of the young have been condemned for years in communist countries, but our politicos have now caught on to the idea. Of course, they've tried to be a little less obvious about it than North Korea or China, but in the end brainwashing is brainwashing however subtly camouflaged - dung covered in rose petals is still dung.
No, you're not a nostalgic old fool, Al, you are simply recognizing the depths to which the politically motivated are now prepared to sink in this country. Similar 'indocrination' tactics of the young have been condemned for years in communist countries, but our politicos have now caught on to the idea. Of course, they've tried to be a little less obvious about it than North Korea or China, but in the end brainwashing is brainwashing however subtly camouflaged - dung covered in rose petals is still dung.
Education = Indoctrination, no matter what side of the isle you stand on. There is no such thing as educational objectivity except in reading, writing and arithmetic, and then only in the 'how' but not the 'what'.
But what does that matter since we've stopped teaching those things in the public school?
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