So… the President of the United States should apparently NOT talk to schoolchildren about the importance of education. ‘Cause that would be bad.

WTH? I’ve heard several people saying things like we shouldn’t discuss social issues in the classroom because the government should stay out of education. Um… the government runs education, unless you didn’t notice that public school is paid for by taxes and not directly from your pocket like private school or homeschool. At which point you can pay to send your kids to whatever weapons stock-piling, Kool-Aid drinking commune you want. Not that most private/home schools are like that. A lot of them are really cool, but, you know, if you don’t like the society you are a part of, you can find private education that caters to your particular breed of madness.

So, if you are still seriously concerned about the dangerous and subversive messages that the President is secretly sending to the youth of America with his socialist rally on Tuesday, I have discovered the ultra-secret hiding place of all the materials – including the speech and lesson plans, I mean lesson propaganda – that Obama is imprinting your children with through that hotbed of liberal thought known as public schools. It’s on WhiteHouse.gov. It takes 1 or 2 clicks to get to from the front page, depending on how you get there. Practically classified.

I’m sorry, do I sound bitter? I usually try to reign in my more caustic comments, but this just, well, it really pissed me off. The labels we carry – our political party, our self-identified race, our nationality, our religion, our jobs – these things are pieces of who we are, but the pervasive idea that you can disseminate all that a human is from a couple labels and then mark everything they do as evil or good because of it is destructive to the human race. All politicians aren’t evil. All liberals aren’t conniving. All Christians aren’t condemning you to Hell. All Muslims aren’t violent. All Americans aren’t money-grubbing, over-sexed, culturally insensitive morons. Some? Sure. All? Heck no. Our upbringing colors our opinions of everything, but people – and therefore groups – change. What was ten years ago, is probably not true today. For the love of God and Humanity, give people a chance before you condemn them. Don’t look for the worst, because you will find it even if it isn’t there.

And then where will we be?