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My fear of a right-wing kid: I won’t let my child become a Ted Cruz-voting wing-nut
Salon ^ | March 23, 2015 | Sue Sanders

Posted on 03/23/2015 7:50:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lizzie is a liberal like me now. But what if one day she embraces the Tea Party, like her grandparents?

Look at the bright side Susie, if she turns out to be a non-liberal like her grandparents, she won't have to write commie lib garbage for the Saloon to make a living.

61 posted on 03/23/2015 8:50:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Salenin website has a leftist writer. Fancy that.


62 posted on 03/23/2015 8:50:07 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My parents were big time leftists, and I never appreciated their ideals. I remember thinking g at a very young age why it is fair that I work harder and smarter than some lazy person and have to give some lazy person a lot of my money. We just avoided politics at dinners when I grew up. I asked a young girl that was member of CA young republicans why she was a member and she said her parents were liberals and that was her form of rebellion.


63 posted on 03/23/2015 8:50:41 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To mark Salon's 20TH anniversary, I am going to become an Onanist so the kids I will never have will never become writers for Salon.com.
64 posted on 03/23/2015 8:51:37 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You’d better hope she does so she can support you in your old worthless age, you parasite


65 posted on 03/23/2015 8:53:20 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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To: __rvx86

Extreme Communist (as opposed to average Communist) would appear to be an unapologetic Stalinist. The sort who sees no harm in lying to the masses or in murdering millions to reach a goal.


66 posted on 03/23/2015 8:58:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: AbnSarge
My brother actually believes The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are legitimate news sources. He is convinced John Stewart and Steven Colbert easily refute all the "lies" of conservative politicians.

My brother thinks I've been brainwashed. That's even after I told him I voted for Dems for decades. So I told him he's brainwashed. He really thinks millions of conservatives didn't vote for Obama because he was black. I asked him if he would have voted for Herman Cain. He called him a crackpot. Then I accused him of being a racist.

Then I asked him if he voted for Obama and Biden and not McCain and Palin. Of course he voted for Obama. I accused him of being a sexist. Then I asked him how does it feel to be accused of racism and sexism just because you don't like the politics of your opponent. Nothing affects him. He'll be a diehard lib to his death.

67 posted on 03/23/2015 9:00:26 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I still have my homemade sign for one of the first tea parties and that is what it reads, “taxed enough already”. I was inspired by Rick Santelli and the gov’t intervention in the housing collapse caused mostly by gov’t and taxpayers had to pay for.


68 posted on 03/23/2015 9:01:29 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: struggle

But my kid will become a...

Can you imagine adding 40-50 years to that?

In 40-60 years old folks homes will start looking like a circus freak show.


69 posted on 03/23/2015 9:08:08 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I don’t want to indoctrinate my child into the cult of my political beliefs. I want her to make up her own mind."

Yeah, right. She's undoubtedly been demonizing conservatives in her daughter's presence her entire life.
70 posted on 03/23/2015 9:27:08 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: struggle

The poor kid doesn’t stand a chance.


71 posted on 03/23/2015 9:31:57 PM PDT by aquila48
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This woman's delusions about the way she's raised her daughter are spooky. I mean, is there any doubt that the daughter has been indoctrinated in progressivism since she was able to speak? If progressives are so obsessive about controlling everyone else, are we to believe they will leave their own children's ideology to chance?

And, to be fair, every parent SHOULD teach their children what they think is true and moral, but this woman is pretending she doesn't, that it's laissez-faire childrearing in their house.
72 posted on 03/23/2015 9:36:25 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: doug from upland

Thanks for posting that picture. Now I’m going to have nightmares!


73 posted on 03/23/2015 9:45:12 PM PDT by Batman11 (The orange, weeping, drunk, squishy oompah-loompah and Yertle McTurd-le gotta go!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's an archaeological treasure chest. It portrays a mindset of a large swathe of the developed world in a single essay. I am grateful to this author for taking the time to say so clearly what so many of us grope to put words to.

And I issue no hyperbole when I say: It is frightening!
74 posted on 03/23/2015 10:40:41 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Steve_Seattle

I don’t care if you are liberal or conservative, taking your child to a protest rally is putting your child in danger. Take them to a political rally or convention, but leave the kids out of your protest marches that could turn ugly.


75 posted on 03/23/2015 10:42:00 PM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow! This woman really needs validation; she doesn’t know who she is or what she stands for... And now she’s divorced? What a shocker! Her poor kid...


76 posted on 03/23/2015 11:20:47 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“I don’t want to indoctrinate my child into the cult of my political beliefs. I want her to make up her own mind.”

Uh huh, Sure you don’t. But then you say that if she wanted you to drive her to help with a Republican campaign you don’t think you’d do it.

“If she someday embraces “family values,” the Tea Party or other right-wing agendas, could it damage my relationship with her?”

Really mom? You would actually contemplate the possibility of a “damaged” relationship with your own child simply based upon what side of politics she ends up on?

As if traditional “family values” and conservative principles are such horrible things anyways. Hey, if your parents hurt you as a child because they belittled your own ideas/understanding of politics I’d think you’d want to do the opposite with your own child and support her however she turns out.

Conservatives are supposed to just support gay marriage even if it goes against what we feel is morally right deep down. We are supposed to accept all these illegal immigrants even though we know the facts about what this does to our sovereignty, economy and culture. We are supposed to want to move over to a socialist mindset even though many of us grew up well under Capitalism and know our history and conclude that it is still the best way forward. We’re smart enough to see where bigger and bigger government leads us to and it aint pretty. SO then this woman should be able to accept and support her own offspring even if their politics end up “diverse” from hers.


77 posted on 03/24/2015 1:01:59 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah..the proud ignorant. The worst thing in the world her daughter could become is conservative. If she became a lesbian or a murderer or a welfare recipient i guess she could deal with that? But a conservative? How could mom ever hold her head up around her fellow commie associates?


78 posted on 03/24/2015 1:56:47 AM PDT by Leep (Ronney/McCain 2016!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author needs a dose of reality.

May it hit her in the face. Hard. And wake her up.


79 posted on 03/24/2015 2:14:44 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Billthedrill

Don’t forget that Henry Knox was one of Washingtons best generals and senior artillerman Saved the guns of Fort Ticonderoga from the British.


80 posted on 03/24/2015 2:20:50 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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