this week an amazing (and amazingly scary ) article is in the New Yorker
GOD AND COUNTRY
It is about Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Virginia which is the preferred college for homeschooled evangelistic kids.
The scary part is these kids have a direct line to the White House and Republican Congress for jobs and internships
how scary are these kids? Here is a bit of their classroom discussions
On a Wednesday afternoon, I sat in on a class on the Presidency. There were fourteen students, all of whom arrived on time and got out their laptops to take notes. Today, they were talking about Machiavelli. The professor, Robert Stacey, who has a trim ginger-colored beard and is a popular, lively teacher, pushed the students to think about Machiavelli's suggestion that leaders create fear to maintain their authority. He brought up the example of the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993. One student asked, "Did they really represent such a big threat to our country?"
"No, but it unified the country, in an us-versus-them sort of way," another answered.
Then Stacey moved on to Machiavelli's principle that politics is governed by conspiracies and lies. "Come on, we know politicians lie," he began. "This is a bit sensitive. How about our beloved George W. Bush? Does he deceive us with what he says in public? Does he lie?"
The students, who had been fully engaged on the subject of Machiavelli and Waco, were silent. Bush has been President since they were teen-agers, and the school newspaper's editorials never deviate from the White House position. Finally, one student said, "No, I don't think so."
a must read article it seems straight out of science fiction but it is in fact all true