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I can handle vilifying so-called liberals. Sure, that's fine.

But now, they want to indoctrinate kids to hate people with a point of view that is different from their own. Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed: A Small Lesson in Conservatism is available for $8.99 from WorldNetDaily. Good grief. Here's an excerpt from the website:

"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.

How about Help! Mom! There Are Straw Men Under My Bed! A Small Lesson in the Ridiculous Rhetoric Used By Conservatives? I think that title would be better and it would be more informative. Admittedly, though, I haven't read the book. But "forbidding them to hang a picture of Jesus atop their stand"? That's quite a blatant false statement (no one -- no one -- is suggesting that religious elements should be removed from a private sphere; that notion was invented by the kind of people who wrote this book). My big fear is that this book will politicize kids at any early age, an age when they aren't old enough to analyze political arguments or realize that they are being imbued with political propaganda.

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Conservatives just get crazier every day. I don't see why parents feel the need to poison the minds of their children by reading them this crap. I mean, the kids who are being read this stuff don't even know how the US government (or any government for that matter) is run for Christ's sake, so just try having to explain everything to them. You're right about one thing though: children who are fed this kind of hatred at a young age DO, in fact, grow up to become radicals. I should also mention that the children of Nazi Germany were brainwashed into following Hitler using propoganda very similar this book (thank you, history channel!).

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