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A liberal friend utterly disgusts me. He posts this on Facebook:

Something I just read: "PBS is pushing a leftist agenda and shouldn't receive funding for that reason alone"

My response: "I suppose you're right about one thing. PBS is an educational platform that believes in a smarter young population. So yes... I suppose it does push a leftist agenda, in that educated people don't easily allow themselves to be puppets for lying Republican bullshit mongers who would rather see them worked to death as a profit generating machine. If they could extract human soul-equivalents from the poor and just leave them as mindless slaves that would suffer for their greed... I don't think they would. I am fairly certain that rich Republicans have an actual desire for people to suffer and be degraded in the name of expanding their already over-inflated profits. Otherwise, we'd see more of a robotics revolution than we already have." (around this time, I think he stopped paying attention, but I didn't care) "Instead, we have a dwindling middle class being converted into the underpaid and overworked poor class. The initiatives that support the poor do so only to the point of keeping them viable workers. If you keep them desperate for work, when a few die off due to having no health care? Fuck it. There are another 100 in a 1 mile radius to replace the dead bastard who frankly, isn't missed except in the HR costs of having to file paperwork for a new employee. Capitalism has run its course. Time to get on with the future. But as you apparently did not watch PBS as a child, I'm fairly certain you don't understand most of the words I've used here. Thus, I must apologize for confusing you and trying to make you actually think for yourself, you child-like frightened little puppet."

Just. Oh my God. The hatred. The utter hatred. "Time to get on with the future" aka so everyone can pay for you?

This, my friends, is Obama's electorate.

Good Lord, save us from these people.

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Honestly PBS should be a privately owned channel and not given money at all from the Gov't. I don't think that is ignorant at all. I do also think there is left wing stuff put into Sesame Street. People are blind if they don't see it. I think it's great for kids but it's not the end of the world the gov't stops giving money to tv channels. Seriously we are in a recession and waste so much money. The gov't doesn't have any business dipping it's fingers into things kids watch period.

I think Sesame Street is already a for-profit agency - look at all the stuff they sell! We should stop subsidizing it at the very least.

But there's a lot good on PBS, but I'm ambivalent about continued funding. Yeah, it's a drop in the bucket, but drops help fill buckets.