Thanks Sasportas. :o)
Steely Tom said: "Brainwashing doesn't work, at least not in America. Rebellion is too much a part of us. There are too many alternate sources of information."
Yeah, well rebellion can run both ways - either against what is bad or against what is right.
Brainwashing works great if liberals get to children early enough. Consider the legislation the California Senate recently passed mandating - yes, mandating - that the CA public schools teach the positive contributions to society that homosexuality, bisexuality, and transexuality have all made to America - in all grade levels, K-12. Thankfully, the legislation has been temporarily stalled due to public outcry, but just give it time. They'll keep pushing to get it through. (Read David Kupelian's The Marketing of Evil)
Kindergarteners are pretty impressionable and stats are now showing most public schoolers believe there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.
So don't be too confident the conservative base will remain intact in decades to come.
I'd love to believe it too, but the stats are already giving big hints as to what's happening and too many people are ignoring the obvious. 85% of public schoolers losing their Christian faith by the time of graduation is nothing to take lightly.
Some of us are going to be pretty shocked when we're sitting in our rockers in our eighties wondering where America went.
I lost my Christian faith by the time I graduated high school. Got it back soon enough.
(steely)
Does Brainwashing work? I think it does. The Bush lied cases had NO merit but had a lot of support in America. Contemplate the successes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and you realize anything is possible.