Listened to the video (I eventually got tired of looking at the dude). Jeepers, I don't know what all the fuss was about. It sounded to me like a bunch of posturing and ad hominem; all chutzpah, no substance; in other words, schlock. Listen to it yourselves, folks. "Bruhaha, ahem, Liberals, with a cap-i-tal 'L', are the opposite of everything that is good, and they hate reason. They're all indoctrinated and brainwashed, and they have control over everything." I can't believe this schmuck. There he is on broadcast television complaining that the liberals have such control over things that the conservaves are afraid to stick their necks out, yet he acknowledges that the abuse liberals are subjected to in this country have prompted some of them to start calling themselves something else. Oy vey, what a schmendrick.
"Indoctrinated," he says. I grew up around racism. Not racial tensions, mind you; my father and grandmother both had to do business with "colored people" on occassion, so they just chatted behind their backs. Remember, boys and girls, backbiters will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. I was taken to a Methodist church by my parents and occassionally sent to a Baptist Sunday School by my grandmother. Admittedly, most of what I was exposed to in the churches had more than anything else to do with the destructive power of mammon and the uselessness of material riches, but it's not like I grew up with a bunch of left-wing stoners. Sometimes I wonder about that pastor, though; he seemed a little red-eyed once and a while, and that smile was kinda creepy. Anyway, the only leftist brainwashing I got when I was a kid was from Madeline L'Engle and that chick who wrote Little House on the Prairie. By the time I got to Tuck Everlasting, which is the next book I read that the teachers weren't putting me in timeout for having out during lessons, I think I was relatively intellectually independent.
Oh, I can just imagine a "fair and balanced" classroom. "Never forget the struggles of the Black Americans, but some people think that racism is no longer an issue." "I may be requiring you to share, but please keep in mind that some people think that welfare is exploitative." "Bobby, you really shouldn't beat up Jimmy, but I'm glad you're learning to stand up for yourself." "Richard, you should really leave enforcing the rules up to the teachers, but some people favor unilateral action." "Fair and balanced" is the right-wing's answer to PC. Same swill, different politics, just as retarded.
Hey, Seyorni. I haven't the foggiest idea what Vedanta is. I think that being patriotic and liberal at the same time causes conservatives to blow some kind of gasket or something. Keep doing it.
