Born Liberal, Raised Right, Taught Wrong

Reb Bradley is a pastor and an author who specialises in helping parents raise their children to become superstitious conservatives. He is worried about so many young Americans being liberals. He thinks good, old conservative parents have failed when their children grow up to be men and women with political and social ideas different from earlier generations. To help parents bring up a new generation of traditional dogmatists who put deity before humanity, he has written a book wittily entitled Born Liberal, Raised Right. The book will help readers deal with such burning topics as:

• Why America has suffered such moral decline in the last 50 years.
• Why so many children raised in good homes grow up with values so different from their parents.
• Why so many young conservatives voted for Obama in this last election.
• Why the crime rate began to grow when parents began applying the wisdom of Dr Spock.

To illustrate the nightmarish situation of young should-be conservatives voting for the evil Mr Obama instead of God’s favourite, the publisher has picked a cover picture of a toddler wearing a Che Guevara playsuit. Good choice, because, as we all know, there has never been anyone so eager to embrace liberalism as the Marxist rebel who set out to rid Cuba of American intellectuals, domestic entrepreneurship, man-on-man action, and Hollywood’s moral decline.

Seriously, I know that the Americans have distorted political terminology beyond recognition, but I simply cannot stop laughing when conservative Americans illustrate liberalism with the world’s most famous communist. It’s like illustrating Christianity with a picture of Buddha.