No, what's reprehensible is that anyone would pay serious attention to a 17 year old, unless, of course, one was a seventeen year old.
Could Kyle Williams become our first skate boarding president?
Posted on 09/25/2005 5:43:33 AM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
I remember when I was a young child, my brother and sister and I would gather on the bed with my parents and every night my dad would read us stories like "The Chronicles of Narnia" or "The Hobbit." When we were younger, he would read "Dr. Seuss" stories or "Winnie the Pooh."
Unfortunately, being born in 1988 had its own share of disappointments. Paramount of these would be not being exposed the great literary accomplishment of Karen DeBrecht and her new children's book, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" Looking back on it, I can see I could easily have become a partisan hack by the time I was 5. Apparently, Rush Limbaugh has given her book a rave review and the book has shot up the Amazon.com charts, but I have to ask: Is this a joke or are parents really going to teach their children liberals are monsters?
The author and publisher aren't to blame nearly as much as the monster they're feeding. There is a huge market for name-calling, stereotyping partisanship. That demographic on both sides of the aisle is being marketed to in the form of cable news, talk radio, current events titles, blogs, magazines, newspapers and on and on. This is the American dream of the 21st century, where R's and D's run thicker than blood. Yet, the only real difference between the parties is their rhetoric used against each other.
It is an ironic time in America when Republicans can generalize about liberals' socialism, while the GOP's own president makes Bill Clinton's presidency look conservative. The Right mocks liberals over welfare, but the Republican Party is building its own fiscally abhorrent welfare state. The GOP is unwilling to act on abortion, they're all talk on homosexual marriage, and they have yet to prove anything in judicial appointments – the only real issues for which the conservative base remains loyal.
There is no immigration policy. Homeland security has successfully undermined civil rights. Education spending has grown somewhere around 40 percent under this administration, while President Bush's early win on No Child Left Behind has proven to be an overly centralized bureaucracy. Alas, a rational thought process need not get in the way of partisan loyalty.
Yet, why can't Americans be more intellectually honest regarding political allegiances? Is it possibly because partisanship appeals to the emotions, requiring sweeping general statements about entire groups of individuals?
On the one end, there are far too many Americans who are filled with unfathomable hatred and fear of this administration. They virtually believe President Bush will any day dispatch federal agents to terrorize their family, while Dick Cheney secretly directs Halliburton to take over the world. Their absurd loathing of this president is purchased only by their blind partisanship. These people will not accept that George W. Bush is a real human being, who has feelings, and is not mentally incompetent. They hold Bush in the same class as Hitler or Stalin and look at the Republican Party as a Westernized version of the Taliban.
Then, you find the naive fools who truly believe the Republican Party is out to help them. They buy the marketed lie that President Bush is merely an altruistic public servant. These types seem incapable of realizing that individualism has vanished because they drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago and now fail to grasp the reality that Americans are divided into easily appeased demographics, catered to with false promises in return for votes. It is true that never has America been more wrapped up in the political and social debate, but it's all just reiteration. American politics has lost its voice for the individual as it slowly trades a constitutional republic based on the rule of law in exchange for a fiscally irresponsible socialist state ruled by an aristocratic class.
In conclusion, there are many problems to be solved in this country, but neither party is interested in offering a viable solution except when it can secure a victory in November. Thus, to continue to talk as if the "Left vs. Right" mentality solves anything is inexcusable. The name-calling may bring in the paycheck for many political pundits, but it is destructive to our nation, and to pass this feature of America on to our children is reprehensible.
Haven't you heard, as long as a candidate puts an (R) in fromt of his name, he can be a communist and we're still supposed to accept him.
I am a registered I.
I vote for the best. Long ago that was D now it is R.
But the book is hilarious and with the MSM going to the D ticket, we need it right now.
Well, you might argue that Republicans haven't always acted like conservatives. But there is certainly a difference in what the two parties profess to believe. And a children's book warning the kiddos of the dangers of liberalism might help the next generation to insist on honest adherence to conservative principles. It can't hurt.
The book is a joke meant to entertain whereas; Heather Has Two Mommies is very serious. The author makes some good points but it is time everyone lightened up a little.
No, what's reprehensible is that anyone would pay serious attention to a 17 year old, unless, of course, one was a seventeen year old.
Could Kyle Williams become our first skate boarding president?
Unfortunately there's truth in that statement. So long as our congress has an imcumbancy return rate in the 90% we will have this problem.
The elites have deep sixed term limits. The lobbyists control legislation.
Is it possible that Americans in General, have lost the ability to engage in critical thought, thinking the Tee-Vee provides intellectual challenges. Thus it has become normal and acceptable to be told what to think.
I don't like politicizing children. That said, at a family dinner I told someone I was raising my children to be conservative.
He said something to the effect of they should be able to make up their own minds. I told him, no, I homeschool, so all I have to do is teach them the Constitution - and let them go from there.
They are always quoting to ME now about how the founders wanted to protect the people from intrusive government.
Indeed, whether he/she be in Congress or the White House.
The main difference between fear of monsters and fear of liberals is the fear of monsters is irrational and you normally get over it by age 6.
Well said.
Although others night object on the basis that virtually everything said are simple -minded rehashes of dirty Demoscat talking points.
And, as such, need not be dignified with the courtesy of a reply.
Add: Bringing up the posters juvenility is probably OK.
(Most of us have neckties older than that.)
Check out all the subliminal and not-so-subliminal politics in children's cartoons and assorted shows. It's disgusting liberal propaganda.
The war is being lost because the libs still control this area of media, and as long as they continue to corrupt the very young, they have it made.
That is a very profound statement!
BTW ... My hat is off to you for home schooling. This nation is much better off for your, and people like your, efforts.
I think it is every adult's job to help imprint children and put them on the right track.
I always make a point of using liberals or democrats as a bad example of civil and social conscience.
When someone is rude in public I say, "probably a liberal."
When we see a homeless person or a real grungy tattooed freak I say,"uh, oh - democrat voter."
If one of the kids does something really stupid or acts snotty I say, "don't act like a liberal."
When a bad driver cuts us off in traffic I say, "Must be a democrat".
Gee G! Thanks for staying on point!
You mean like, in style, out of style, and back in style again? ;)
BTW ... I in no way denigrate youth. I do, though, firmly believe in serving an apprenticeship before being let loose to do a jouneymans job.
Lest any Lib really think you are "politiciizing" a windup teener.
"do a jouneymans job."
Apprentice work will just have to do until your spell check gets out of the shop.
Yes I was about to comment that if the Liberals can put queer books in Kindergarten it is certainly time we placed books about liberalism and its perils in the home.
Hey!!! Thats the first time I have noticed this new word Demoscat, Its very descriptive and apt.
"They hold Bush in the same class as Hitler or Stalin and look at the Republican Party as a Westernized version of the Taliban."
That is the problem with whoever THEY are. I am a registered republician though what I am is a PATRIOT and a AMERICAN. The RIGHTS and FREEDOMS we have were given to us by GOD and put into writing by the FOUNDING FATHERS. The enemys we beat in World War Two promised to beat us from within and they are working at it through the schools by weakening each generation that comes along. In some ways the beaten enemies of World War Two are winning though in my mind not enough. Our people in uniform in Iraq and Afganiststan are cut from the same mold as all who have ever worn the unifoms of AMERICA. President Bush is not in anyway like Hitler or Stalin nor is the republican party a western verison ot the Taliban. Some of the enemies within are in our Government and they have been there thoughout HISTORY. The problem with people that think the executive branch is the problem haven't read the United States Constitution and found out that the legislative branch has more power than the executive branch. From George Washington to George Bush it has been the same. We don't have a king we have a President. Read History because it keeps repeating itself, some of the people don't know anything about what happened twelve hours ago much less twenty, fifty, one hundred, or two hundred and fifty years ago. God Bless Ameica and all who have and will defend HER. Yes GOD gave us AMERICA so don't let the Communists take HER away from us. We the PEOPLE run the government because we elected it and we have to make them listen to us and make them go by the United States Constitution and the Bill if Rights.
Tell me, wuz eye on poynt? ;)
Thanks. Were'nt you with the original dogpack of lefties that started this thread? Seems each only had one opening line.
Elections should moved to April 15th.
And monsters can't raise your taxes. ;)
Joe! The "little Rascals" got to ya Joe?
That's how they planned it.
Cool yer jets Joe.
For the Dems ,it's down to this, grown ups posing as a hit squad of fresh-faced hoods like in Eastside Story.
Remember?
I don't quite know how to take what you said though I'll give you a HaHa. "That's how they planned it." Whoever "they" are,are the real enemy and more people need to wake up. Maybe for the Dems it is down to this though the ENEMY from within is real. If you look up what a Airman was in the seventies was with a Specialty Code of 43270 was you will see that my jets are running at military power. God Bless AMERICA and ALL who LOVE and DEFEND HER!
Yeah. The Liberal Dems are full of belligerant talk with no ideas; the Repubs have good ideas and principals but no expression of them, and no fight. The feminization of masculinity has taken the authority out of our men. It's no wonder the homosexuals are at the forefront.
It's true that the effect of this is to move America toward Stalinism We're failing at participatory Democracy. The minorities are winning. The cart is pulling the horse.
The only other real force moving politics is big money; lobbyists, Special Interest Groups - they have the ear of the legislators.
My younger daughter(24)was homeschooled once she started the 7th grade and the difference in her outlook towards this country and her own self worth is huge in comparison to the cynical and 'why-bother' fatalism my older daughter(28)is saddled with. I know the "why" of this difference. Mainly my younger benefited from being removed from all the daily guilty 'do-goodism'(they're good/you're bad) and multi-culturalism that is preached in the government schools every day. It beats you down. She was a very aware child and it was a divisive experience NOT a 'let's-join-hands and-love-one-another-cause we're-different'experience.
She never looked back once she left the government school system.
Similar pressures sadly nutured a cynicism in my older daughter. She was in the Southern California school system through to the bitter-end. She was often made to feel (by the teachers!) that even though she was the grandchild of first generation Italian-Americans, SHE was part of the problem and all the hundreds of Persian(ne:Iranian) and 'diverse'Latino 'immigrants' that filled her school were somehow 'better' than she. There were no 'American" clubs that met after school, but there was a Persian Club, etc that she was NOT allowed to attend) She was told she couldn't attend the Persian club unless she was 'Persian"! Was she discouraged? Yes.Now I know this is lacking in the finer-points, but I'd like to stress that after years of such negativity in our schools, I think our children can't help becoming cynical and fatalistic. It's up to us to stop this insanity.
I didn't see any of this in time for my older daughter; I did for my second and the results and huge!
I haven't read the book, and something tells me the author of this piece didn't either.
They seemed very quick to convert the "liberals"
under the bed to "monsters"
something I doubt the book says.
I was a full grown adult before I made that connection
The Democrats have moved so far to the left, they are dragging the GOP along to the left with it.
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