Communism, anyone?
Sep/090
This is just disturbing. Respect for the Office of the President of the United States is one thing. But this sounds like some over-zealous teacher who thought it’d be a real kick to teach these kids a song that sounds like a (bad) propaganda piece. It is (or shouldn’t be) no surprise that I’m pro-Obama. Voted for him, support him, support the DNC. And I find this appalling and inappropriate.
Of course, any viral video is going to have lots of comments from people spouting nonsense and their own idealogical beliefs. Like that somehow POTUS himself is behind this, or “I seem to recall that school children (das Kinder) sang songs praising their leader in Germany during the mid-late 1930’s.?” Here’s a comment that is so rooted in reason and education that it’s worth sharing with you all:
And to think, these kids aren’t allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance or pray to whatever they worship in that school.
Communism, anyone?
Yeah, sorry. Go back to high school civics and try again. They’re allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They just can’t be mandated to say it (or the words “under God” in it) by the school if they choose not to. And they may pray to and worship whatever and whomever they so choose so long as it is not school-sponsored and, again, mandatory. What ytaccount83 is suggesting is that they would much rather have a government where everyone is forced to say “under God” in the Pledge as well as have mandatory school/state-sponsored prayer. Well, unfortunately for them we do not live in a theocracy or a nation with a State religion, as much as it pains them because in their twisted mind Christians are still persecuted and the word of God must be forced upon everyone.
Social conservatism, “family values”, and the right-wing association with them is nothing new. It got Republicans lots of electoral victories in 2004, including President George W. Bush. But the lunatic fringe is becoming increasingly louder and increasingly “popular” among the party mainstays. (Not to mention the violence, racism, and anti-semitism that was so predominate with Glenn Beck, the tea parties and “9/12 Project” even in Washington, D.C. “We came unarmed… this time”? An armed revolt against the legitimately-elected government? Is that what they’re seriously threatening?) Polling indicates that the GOP is just a “party of the South”, considering that’s the only region where their favorability is higher than their unfavorability and even then by a comparatively thin margin. The GOP lost big in the 2008 election and are trying to find their footing. I don’t object to many ideas the fiscal conservatives have. And I think healthy debate is good for government. But I don’t think a major political party should play to a minority constituency that demonizes education, civil rights, and religious freedoms as hard and fast as the GOP has in recent years by using lies and distortions that harken back to the “red scare” of the mid 20th century.
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