Rick Santorum, a Republican presidential candidate for President, claimed that schools indoctrinate children. His evidence is that “You wonder why young people can vote and flock for a guy like Barack Obama and say, if you look at the surveys, that socialism is better than capitalism -- well, that’s because they don’t understand America, I said ‘indoctrination’ and I meant it." So according to him, because young people voted for Barack Obama, that means they are indoctrinated by schools. Perhaps Santorum has forgotten we are in a financial crisis that was caused by unregulated capitalism, and two recent environmental disasters, the BP oil spill and the West Virginia mining disaster, are also failures of unregulated capitalism.
Santorum has said he believes life begins at conception and that being gay is a choice. These are two factually inaccurate statements. The Tea Party mangles history by promoting a government that looks more like the Articles of Confederation than the U.S. Constitution. They claim the government does nothing right when it does a lot right. They claim social programs are pointless when they actually help people. It seems as though The Tea Party and Santorum need to go back to school to learn about how the world actually works, instead of following what the philosopher Charles Peirce called the method of tenacity, which is believing what you want to believe in spite of any evidence and never changing.
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