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But Think of The Children!
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, speaking to a crowd in Iowa about preschool programs like Head Start:
“Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that.”
It isn’t the first time he’s said so, either; last May, Santorum somewhat inexplicably compared preschool education to his grandfather’s experiences in Fascist-era Italy. Now that strikes me as a step particularly beyond using “children’s interests” as a strawman argument and officially into verified paranoia territory.
To put it another way: in the world of the Simpsons, Santorum would be Helen Lovejoy.