"Tommy and Lou open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland".

This is not satire; it's an actual children's book that's been endorsed by prominent conservatives like Rush Limbaugh.

I am sure liberals have their own set of childrens' books focused on particular issues like teaching children to recycle or living with two mommies. But I can't find a children's book that obsesses over and demeans Republicans or conservatives as a group. While some consider it a flaw that liberals focus on their seperate issues rather than uniting based on ideology, at least they aren't teaching children to despise a large portion of the population.

As Andrew Sullivan points out, conservative ideology is becoming the equivalent of a religion. I don't like the idea of children being indoctrinated into anything. Children are not in a position to judge for themselves, particular when information is coming from their parents. But I can understand parents who want to pass religious beliefs on at a young age. But political ideology? Childhood is the age of innocense. Politics is vile, disgusting sludge-slinging contest that corrodes the mind and soul, and these people want to drag children into that?

I knew a professor in college who was extremely conservative and made his political ideology a large part of his identity. He was a young professor and had a three or four-year-old son. One day he brought his son to parade in front of the class. "Who do you like?" the professor asked his son in front of the students. "Geowge Bush," the kid said in cute baby-talk. "And who do you hate?" the professor asked. "Libwal Democwats."

Poor kid.