Please someone tell me this is a joke.

[charliesmum]

I was going to post about my play, but there is also this really cool meme that chavvah posted that is made of awesome, so I was going to post that, but then, as I was checking my email I saw something that made me go 'huh?'*

You know how, as part of Google's world domination, on gmail it will give you these links to things it knows you are intersted in, and today there was a link that led to this.

Why Mommy is a Democrat brings to life the core values of the Democratic party
in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy. Using
plain and non-judgmental language, along with warm and whimsical
illustrations, this colorful 28-page paperback depicts the Democratic principles
of fairness, tolerance, peace, and concern for the well-being of others. It's a great
way for parents to gently communicate their commitment to these principles and
explain their support for the party.

I'm pretty much a liberal person, as you all well know, with Strong Views about our current administration. *points to icon* and I will raise my hand to saying many nasty things about our current president and sometimes passing the less vitrolic thoughts along to my son, but even I have to draw the line at something like this.

I mean, I'm all for teaching children fairness, tolerance, peace, and concern for the well-being of others, I balk at believing so totally that it is a Democratic POV only. And what does that have to do with political views anyway?

I think my real issue with this is that I'm so tired of this 'them vs. us' thing. After 9/11 there was this rallying cry of 'we are all Americans now!' but since then we've degenerated into this severely divided country with this pathetic 'if you are not for us then you are against us' attitude.

I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand", and yet over the last 8 years we've done nothing but divide, and it is only a matter of time before we fall.




*I will do both eventually

Comments

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does politics get more divisive every year?

[jfda.livejournal.com]

Politics has always been divisive. At least today they're not accusing each other of actually committing murder or of planning to declare themselves King, or other wonderful things.

Grah! I was going to link to this article about 19th century Presidential politics, but the site's now a 404. I'll just have to link to an entry a while back (http://nik-xlii.livejournal.com/41147.html#cutid1) where I quoted some passages from it. Here's some fun ones: In 1876 one candidate, Samuel Tilden, could be cast as a drunken con man suffering from syphilis; the other, Rutherford B. Hayes, as a sociopath who had once shot his mother and who had pocketed the wages of slain soldiers he commanded in the Civil War. and [in the election of 1800] It was alleged that President Adams had ordered an American warship to journey to England and return with not one but two mistresses for him to enjoy. On top of his supposed sins from the last election, Jefferson was now—according to newspapers backed by Adams's party—a godless, lawless racketeer in favor of legal prostitution, incest, rape, marital infidelity, and the slaughter of children on spears.

By comparison, even Anne Coulter is a model of reason and moderation.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

LOL. I saw that book somewhere before. Maybe the same place. I thought it was baffling.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

No, but you must understand, the way of the third party leads to DOOM! And minority governments! And...compromise.

This is why America must stick firmly to the two-party system, and grab kids for either side as soon as possible. Otherwise you'd become, like, I don't know...New Zealand. You don't want that, do you?

[egneveron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree with many Democratic ideologies, but I think this book is sinking to the same low that a lot of fundamentalist groups (of all sorts) teach their kids before they have even learned to think for themselves. I understand that most kids grow up thinking like their parents, because obviously their parents pass their values to their children, naturally. But this just seems a bit like brainwashing.

Sometimes I think the Donkeys and the Elephants aren't all that different...sometimes...