Seriously?  CNN is calling this "Party Training", but who knows if that's a real cliche, or if this is just CNN acting like British papers and trying to make up stupid catch phrases in a lame attempt to make themselves relevant in popular culture.  Normally this sort of thing just pathetic and harmless, but I'm turned off by it this time, it does a disservice because it gives a cute name to something that really is rotten.

Look, I'm a huge political junkie and try and stay involved, but this is just obnoxious.  Good grief people, let your little kid just be a damn kid.  Parents are putting their yoots in political themed shirts and dragging them to demonstrations on a regular basis.

Values are important, I'm not about to say kids shouldn't be taught values, but this goes beyond teaching values, this is using young kids as a political tool, and cheating them out of a childhood.  Have we really reached the point where we're gonna propagandize our kids on this level the second they leave the womb? 

It's getting a little too close to Hitlerjugend territory for me.  When they reach their teenage years, sure, talk about politics, but the woman in the story has been forcing her kid to wear propaganda and dragging him to lots of demonstrations since he was three!  And you'll note, I don't mention that she's a raging leftist, because I'm sure there are conservatives who do the same damn thing, this is douchebaggery on a bipartisan level.

I'll say this though, for those that are turned off about the increasingly cutthroat political climate now?  Get ready, because when we get a generation of kids who have spent their whole lives being propagandized at this level and beyond, partisan politics of today may look like, well, child's play.

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