why daddy is a democrat
I was checking my Gmail account today when a little text ad appeared on the top of the page:
I rarely click through on ads that I see, text or banners, but for some reason this one caught my attention, so I clicked through to see a site that is selling two children’s books, one titled Why Mommy is a Democrat and one titled Why Daddy is a Democrat.
Here is an example of one of the pages from the books:
I guess I’m a skeptic at heart, but when I first took a look at the site I thought surely it must be some Republican joke targeted at Democrats, like those books that explain why Mommy or Daddy is gay. But apparently these are simply children’s books about being part of the Democratic Party.
I still think it is weird that we need books that explain politics in this way to children (and it definitely reeks a bit of discomforting propaganda - it assumes a universal underdog stigma is attached to being a Democrat, something I’d expect more of someone writing a children’s book about the Green Party, for example), but I definitely give props to the author for his creative use of Google AdSense. I clicked through.