Politically, it is genius. A coalition of kindergarteners or an attaché of adolescents can escape accountability behind their left-wing guardians while simultaneously breaking rules for which adults would face communal, professional, and legal reprimands.
The insurrection at the Tennessee state capitol in April is another example of how adults weaponize children for political gain. Look at the pictures showing screaming children separated from legislators by police and legislators bringing children onto the House floor, disrupting the session. There were several violent confrontations between police and the manipulative adults leading children—grade school aged children who, having been shoved to the front of the crowd, were screaming at legislators while adults directed them from the back, as one viral photo shows. The slaughter of children at a Christian school by a transexual was quickly turned into an issue about firearms, as organizations like March for Our Lives activated its own Red Guards to push as many children into the state capitol as possible. The children became the fulcrum by which the media and political elites pushed for gun control. But because the adolescent moral blackmail was done for a supposedly righteous cause, the insurrection at the Tennessee state capitol wasn’t seen as such.
The outrage that is generated from dismissing children’s concerns is a clever way for elites to compliment the rule of experts. The experts who hypothesize, craft, test, develop, and propose policies to solve all the supposed ills of society are not the same people acting as the foot soldiers for pressure campaigns. Children have both youthful spirit and energy, alongside their “honesty and sincerity, their single-minded determination and their unshakable faith in the rightness of their cause,” as The Washington Post put it.
Give children the ability to do the dirty grunt work of politics that adults either won’t or cannot do themselves. Keep the parents at arms-length or pass off such activism as a great resume-builder for college applications.
americanmind.org
The insurrection at the Tennessee state capitol in April is another example of how adults weaponize children for political gain. Look at the pictures showing screaming children separated from legislators by police and legislators bringing children onto the House floor, disrupting the session. There were several violent confrontations between police and the manipulative adults leading children—grade school aged children who, having been shoved to the front of the crowd, were screaming at legislators while adults directed them from the back, as one viral photo shows. The slaughter of children at a Christian school by a transexual was quickly turned into an issue about firearms, as organizations like March for Our Lives activated its own Red Guards to push as many children into the state capitol as possible. The children became the fulcrum by which the media and political elites pushed for gun control. But because the adolescent moral blackmail was done for a supposedly righteous cause, the insurrection at the Tennessee state capitol wasn’t seen as such.
The outrage that is generated from dismissing children’s concerns is a clever way for elites to compliment the rule of experts. The experts who hypothesize, craft, test, develop, and propose policies to solve all the supposed ills of society are not the same people acting as the foot soldiers for pressure campaigns. Children have both youthful spirit and energy, alongside their “honesty and sincerity, their single-minded determination and their unshakable faith in the rightness of their cause,” as The Washington Post put it.
Give children the ability to do the dirty grunt work of politics that adults either won’t or cannot do themselves. Keep the parents at arms-length or pass off such activism as a great resume-builder for college applications.
America’s Red Guards
Restoring parental rights is a small step toward defanging those attempting to indoctrinate and weaponize children for political gain.
americanmind.org