[Kafuuil]

I think I am going to puke.

http://littledemocrats.net/index.html

We are about peace, love and tolerance, unless you are not a Democrat. Those people are all bad.

Yes, let's make sure we start our kids on petty partisan politics from an early age.

Matt

[barsikjal]

With numerous subtle
(and not-so-subtle) satirical swipes
at the Bush administration and
the Republican party Teach your children well...

[Dstyeglm]

I think I am going to puke.

http://littledemocrats.net/index.html

We are about peace, love and tolerance, unless you are not a Democrat. Those people are all bad.

Yes, let's make sure we start our kids on petty partisan politics from an early age.

Matt

The USA shows the highest rate of partisan identification with one's parent's partisanship in the western world.

This little book just makes it obvious, but the USA has certainly already long since adopted hereditary partisanship in a way that is not found in any other western country.

I haven't seen recent figures, but the parental process of partisan identification is damn close to the one for religion. As always, religion is almost entirely hereditary (in all countries around the globe).

Indeed, go to a high school - I'll bet a majority of US students at US high schools would claim partisanship to one party or the other. A Canadian high school, I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find a student who didn't say "politics sucks - are you kidding?" if asked about the political party memberships.

And I don't think there is one whit of difference between the political knowledge of Canadian or US high school students - they are both expected to have none.

[Rinkeliacasse]

The USA shows the highest rate of partisan identification with one's parent's partisanship in the western world.

This little book just makes it obvious, but the USA has certainly already long since adopted hereditary partisanship in a way that is not found in any other western country.

Do you have a source for that information? I don't think that it's too far fetched, but I would like to see some how accurate that kind of a study could be.

And I would think that such a correlation would be more due to sectionalism that hereditary, but I'm sure hereditary (and penultimately, upbringing) would play a role as well.


As for the "Why is Mommy a Democrat" book, I think that's great...
Now I need to make a "Why Daddy's a Libertarian Americanist" children's book for balance...

[shodulsilfeli]

Now I need to make a "Why Daddy's a Libertarian Americanist" children's book for balance...

[Imalaycle]

At first I was concerned this referred to a school curriculum. A children's book is still nausiating, but so long as it isn't being forced on children by people who don't have the authority to do so, I can't complain much.

Then I was thinking of why one would bother to have such a book. Or want to read it to little children. The answer is almost obvious - Their little minds have to be brainwashed and indoctrinated before they've learned critical thinking or it will be too late.

[reaciciomarep]

Do you have a source for that information? I don't think that it's too far fetched, but I would like to see some how accurate that kind of a study could be.

Just about any college (entry) level Comparative Political Science textbook will cover this one off - the existing patterns on the subject are remarkably durable.

Canadians are the least likely to vote according to their parents and are most likely to vote for different parties in sequential elections.

And I would think that such a correlation would be more due to sectionalism that hereditary, but I'm sure hereditary (and penultimately, upbringing) would play a role as well.

Sectionalism? I don't understand that term.

As for 'why' this is so, that is indeed a large and complext topic that touches upon a huge range of topics - not the least of which is the 'trust for authority' issue that Americans traditionally score very high on that scale while Canadians traditionally score very low on that same scale.

[BenBoobmers]

I think I am going to puke.

http://littledemocrats.net/index.html

We are about peace, love and tolerance, unless you are not a Democrat. Those people are all bad.

Yes, let's make sure we start our kids on petty partisan politics from an early age.

Matt

The partisan conditioning hate breeding starts young, need to keep the unrelenting passive civil war going in the land of the free to do what you're told. Oh, the Delphi technique is a grand plan.

Or else Unity might rear it's ugly head, and dethrone this insidious direct plutocracy, we call the U.S. installation.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159...lance&n=283155

[Kubasarika]

Or else Unity might rear it's ugly head, and dethrone this insidious direct plutocracy, we call the U.S. installation.

Yeah, we gotta get this friggin dog off the throne:



Him and that insidious mouse are ruining everything.

Matt

[curcercanty]

Hey, I heard they put out a couple books like that in Palestine. Yeah, one's called Why Daddy Hides from Jews and the other one's Why Mommy is In a Little, Bloody Box. Good readin'!

[newspetty]

Yeah, we gotta get this friggin dog off the throne:



Him and that insidious mouse are ruining everything.

Matt

Make jokes about an American plutocracy, see if I care.

[popillio]

Yeah, we gotta get this friggin dog off the throne:

...

Him and that insidious mouse are ruining everything.

Matt

Perhaps I should write a children's book titled Why Mommy doesn't want her Republican son to learn the word 'Plutocracy.'

[Flikemommoilt]

LOL

Matt

[*Playergirl*]

Sectionalism? I don't understand that term.

Let's say that most people who are born in Texas live their lives in Texas, and that most people born in Massachusetts live their lives in Massachusetts. All I did was conjecture that it could be that living in a certain region was more responsible for political leanings than upbringing. Although I'm sure that upbringing is very important as well.

To me it seems that the more densely populated a region is the more socialist it is... That seems like a pretty large correlation in the United States, with noteable exceptions...


But screw this, I need to write a children's book with a turkey named George...

[eFDMBwKH]

Let's say that most people who are born in Texas live their lives in Texas, and that most people born in Massachusetts live their lives in Massachusetts. All I did was conjecture that it could be that living in a certain region was more responsible for political leanings than upbringing. Although I'm sure that upbringing is very important as well.

Yes, this makes sense. I believe a better term might be 'localism'.

And yes, the USA and UK specifically are notable for a very high level of this (people spending their entire lives within 30 miles of where they were born).

To me it seems that the more densely populated a region is the more socialist it is... That seems like a pretty large correlation in the United States, with noteable exceptions...

Actually, 'liberalism' has been shown to co-relate rather well with weather rather than population - liberalism thrives in the colder climates - presumably due to the natural inclination for co-operation that comes from nasty dangerous cold weather.