Rick Santorum claims that colleges are "indoctrinating" our youth.

Courtesy of Outside the Beltway:  

Rick Santorum said the nation’s colleges are promoting a “sea of antagonism toward Christianity” and “indoctrinating” its youth with ideals that support gay marriage, abortion and pornography. 

Santorum called in to Tony Perkins’ “Washington Watch” on Tuesday to talk about the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. The conversation dealt not only with abortion but also included other “symptoms” that have changed the nation. 

Perkins spoke broadly, saying pro-choice Americans represent a troubled country that doesn’t choose life, meaning “That is to follow the principals, the teachings, the instructions of God … You see that as you’ve been in Washington, D.C. There is a rejection of this idea of truth, and that there is a foundation or morality, which needs to be upheld.” 

Santorum agreed, adding that less young people devote themselves to Christianity. “If you look at the popular culture and what comes out of Hollywood, if you go to our schools and particularly our colleges and universities, they are indoctrinated in a sea of relativism and a sea of antagonism towards Christianity.” 

“Abortion is a symptom. Marriage is a symptom. Pornography [is a symptom],” he continued. “All of these are symptoms to the fundamental issue that we’ve gotten away from the truth and the ‘Truth-Giver.’”

 You know Inigo Montoya is exactly right. I don't think that Rick Santorum understands what it really entails to successfully indoctrinate somebody.

Now look I am loathe to disagree with a man who single-handedly made the sweater vest the most mocked article of clothing in the entire 2012 election cycle, but I am afraid I am going to have to here.

In order to successfully indoctrinate somebody you do NOT start at an age when they are just starting college. No THAT is much too old.

By then they have most likely developed the ability to access a variety of information sources and learned something called "critical thinking." Critical thinking is to indoctrination what sunlight is to vampires. (And not those stupid Twilight vampires either. REAL. totally fictional movie vampires.)

No in order to successfully indoctrinate somebody you have to start when they are quite young. Say around five, six or seven years old.

And you take them to a place where they can be put in a room together and have fantastical stories drilled into their heads until they ACTUALLY begin to believe they are true. And hell at this age you can make up just about anything, they are really are quite naive and trusting.

I'm just spit balling but perhaps you could tell them a story about a man who walked on water. Or about snakes that talk. Or perhaps you could weave a tale about a man swallowed by a whale who emerges unharmed three days later. Or, if you are feeling truly lucky, you might even convince these impressionable children that a woman gave birth to a child while still a virgin.

Let's see, you could probably gather this group of children together say once a week, when there was no school. Perhaps on a Sunday for instance.

Hey, you could even call it Sunday School!

You could even use a colorful felt board to illustrate your stories, and use apple juice and graham cracker snacks to dull the children's senses and make them more susceptible to the indoctrination into a belief system based totally on ancient Hebrew fables and allegories.

You know, for example.

If you wanted to expand on that theme you could also build a faux museum which refutes virtually EVERYTHING that science has learned about this planet, and even put together a colorful and purposefully duplicitous slide show and present it to the very young children as revealed truth in order to inoculate them from accepting fact based information later in their lives.

In fact if you do it right it , or some portion of it, will likely last their entire lives. Then you can use trigger words like "tradition," or "values," or "morality" to manipulate them into making choices that are not in their best interest and may in fact be damaging to them and their families in the long run.

You see THAT is how to indoctrinate people Rick Santorum. If anything, and I know this may be very hard to accept for somebody with your limited intellectual faculties, colleges may actually serve as a place where young men and women are freed from their PREVIOUS indoctrination. A place where they might learn that the world, and the universe around it, are in fact MUCH more amazing and complex than they were led to believe it was as children.

Or perhaps that is really what you are talking about here? Not indoctrination, but the deprogramming of those who were already successfully indoctrinated? Could that be the case?

Well no wonder you see college as an evil entity, the last thing a Republican politician, who identifies himself as a Christian, wants is people thinking for themselves. After all how long will the Republican party last if they do?