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My seven year old daughter came home from school today and asked who I was voting for. I said, "don't you know honey? President Obama, of course." She hesitated for a moment and said, "Eric and Evan (brothers) said not to vote for Obama." I said, "well, that's a decision that everyone decides for themselves and I think the president is the right choice." Then she said something that made me very upset.. "But Eric and Evan said that their Mom said that Obama was in Arizona killing babies." Needless to say I was taken way back. Of course I told her that this was a lie that some people tell when they are told lies themselves.
OK, now... where do people get off poisoning their children's minds with such manipulative and abusive shit? Sometimes I think there is line that parents cannot cross where teaching a child their beliefs and ideals becomes a form of mental child abuse. No, in the strict legal sense it is not abuse but teaching children outright lies is teaching them to be liars. I won't get into a religion rant because that is not where I want to go with this. I just want to share how utterly abusive the corruption of this election and the right wing players are having on the future of America by using the age old tactics fascists have used throughout history... Get the minds of the children first at any cost, and teach them the agenda so they will not depart from it.
A child's mind and heart are the seat of the human race. They are our future. They are sacred. To purposely desecrate such with hatred is abuse.
I am beginning to feel America shifting under my feet.
riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)It might be a good thing. Your daughter should not be hearing this stuff at her age.
Parents should not be telling their children lies.
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)I don't care what your politics are ...
WHAT KIND OF SICK, EVIL JACKASS TELLS THEIR CHILD THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS KILLING BABIES?!?!?!?!?!?!