Children's literature for early indoctrination.

[theweaselking]

"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! A Small Lesson in Conservatism" is a wonderful way to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. In simple text, parents and children follow Tommy and Lou on their quest to earn money for a swing set their parents cannot afford. As their dream gets stuck in Liberaland, Tommy and Lou's lemonade stand is hit with many obstacles.

Liberals keep appearing from behind their lemon tree, taking half of their money in taxes, forbidding them to hang a picture of Jesus atop their stand, and making them give broccoli with each glass sold.

Law after law instituted by the press-hungry liberals finally results in the liberals taking over Tommy and Lou’s stand and offering sour lemonade at astronomical prices to the customers.
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Doesn't make any attempt to address the issues at hand, aims to make an emotional response to things people AREN'T saying and hides behind irrational, incomplete, and misleading metaphors. That's about right.

Oh, and like most other things coming out of the Reich these days, it aims at people who don't know better, and it's primary message is "You shouldn't listen to what people who ain't like us say, because they're EEEEEEVIL".

Comments

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

While the story sounds like a reduction to absurdity argument, and possibly fun, I don't think children would understand.

I think you are right on in saying a work like this is ill-conceived and not at all useful.

It seems that the Author is serious about this; it does not appear to be designed to show how absurd some conservatives are getting. It appears to actually be a part of how absurd some conservatives are getting.

<sigh> Can I seccede? No, wait, President Lincoln showed you just get a can a whup-ass opened on you if you try. Damn, where in the world can I go that isn't run by idiots?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

> Damn, where in the world can I go that isn't run by idiots?

Canada. It's like the US, but with fewer restrictions on your freedom, higher taxes but the same standard of living since the cost of living is much lower, less crime, better health care, and our politicians are far less insane.

Take for example, a rabid right-wing American politician: He believes that blacks aren't really people, all hispanics are illegal immigrants, every child should have a gun to protect him from schoolyard bullies, and that absolutely all people on welfare are cheats out to get a free ride.

The extreme right of CANADIAN politicians believes that gay people shouldn't get married and marijuana shouldn't be legalised.