Reply #27: While I strongly disagree with tea baggers and conservatives, [View All]

[mlevans]

the notion of force-feeding them progressive material troubles me deeply. First off, it sounds much too close to indoctrination, possibly even brainwashing. I can't subscribe to that, no matter how wrong-headed I believe these people to be. Second, it wouldn't work. You mention this in your paragraph concerning the "Left" and "Right"...the mind has to be at least a little bit open in order to accept the message. These people have demonstrated closed-mindedness time and again. Finally, I suspect that many if not most of them simply lack the intelligence to understand. I don't want to sell them short or paint with too broad a brush, but the overall picture they present is one of severely challenged intellects. Sadly, in this country we seem to have a constitutional right to be stupid.