A Glaring Example of what's wrong with our country

[maxrandb]

Was listening to a little of Hannity Insanity on the way home from work yesterday. Sorry, but it's the only station that I can get a decent traffic report from, and besides, since the Dems won back control of the House and Senate, Insanity has been even more apoplectic. It's a source of humor for me for the long drive home.

Anyway, some lady called in. She was home-schooling her 11 year old daughter, and one of the topics was an exercise to compare and contrast politicians and the political landscape from the time of Julius Caesar to politicians and the political landscape of today. She said that her problem was that her daughter "had no clue about what today's politicians stood for, what issues were important, what the different ideologies are", etc".

She asked Insanity for his help into where she could steer her daughter to increase her political knowledge. To paraphrase, here was Insanity's answer.

"Well you have this show, you have Fox News. You and your daughter ought to sit down, listen to this show, watch Fox News...for example, I'm having all of the presidential candidates on my show, Rudy, Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney, John McCain...they'll all be on my show"

Did you notice that not one single Democratic Presidential candidate was mentioned?

We're going to have a generation of "25 per-centers" that have been raised on the IV Drip of Fox and talk radio.

[treestar]

1. Hopefully it will lead to teen rebellion

Can't wait until these people are teens and start questioning everything and find out how much their elders tried to hide from them and start to wonder why.

that's the great thing about the human mind. It cannot be controlled. RWs are so pathetic in their attempt to pretend others are robots they can program.

[MrModerate]

2. These kids are completely un-inoculated against the real world . . .

When they leave the nest, they'll catch every imaginable *social disease* -- and the survivors will see their parents for the deranged cranks they are.

At least some will.

[maxrandb]

3. Can't help but think that the real world

is going to smack them in the face when they get outside their bubble.

Speaking of bubbles, was our Pretzledent "Home-Schooled", or was it just the facts that daddy's deep pockets bought him out of every poor decision he's made, and he's never been held accountable for anything, that made him such a psychopath?

[MrModerate]

4. Well, I'd call him a sociopath rather than psychopath . . .

(Altho Laura probably knows the truth of that distinction better than either one of us) . . .

But yes, the bubblicious upbringing of privilege, money, and a permanent safety net probably had a lot to do with Schimpanski's intellectual shallowness and detachment from consensus reality.