Ann Althouse: The use of children in politics – if you find it pursuasive, you’d better sharpen up
Commenting on photos of politicians with children on Drudge (here we’re talkin Hitler and Stalin…) Ann declares…
It’s ridiculous to equate Obama to Hitler and Stalin, but Obama is using a form of propaganda that should be considered not merely ridiculous but repulsive.
Indeed.
She continues…
Who falls for that? No one should! The implicit argument the political leader makes, in all 3 of these pictures, is: I’m making the country good for the sake of the children. The child can’t vouch for the policies. The child hasn’t competently requested anything. The child is merely a prop representing goodness, innocence, and the future.
