Brainwashing

It has suddenly become clear to me why parents are so concerned about their children being "brainwashed" by Obama. Since they are so easily convinced of such unsupported lies as 1) Obama is not an American; 2) Obama will be setting up death squads to eliminate the weak and elderly and 3) Obama wants to take over your medical decisions - and so on and so on. Clearly, since it is so easy to brainwash these folks with lies, they have a deep seated fear that their children will be brainwashed by facts and sensible values - creating between them and their children an insurmountable "generational" gap.