Fox News Contributor: Children’s Books, Schools, Textbooks, Movies, and Cartoons are ‘Merchants of Socialism’
Fox Nation contributor Rachel Campos Duffy appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss her op-ed, Fighting Socialism with the Little Red Hen, arguing on Wednesday’s show that cartoons, children’s books, textbooks, movies, and TV shows promote socialism to children.
“Well, the topic is really that if you’re not talking to your kids about socialism, and this is the battle in our country right now, free enterprise and capitalism versus socialism,” Duffy told the Fox & Friends hosts. “That’s the battle, and if you’re not talking to your kids about it, somebody is.”
She explained the ways in which she says that happens. “It’s not just in the textbooks and curriculum in the kid’s school. These messages and I call them the merchants of socialism out there in the culture start very young,” she said.
“Our cartoons denigrate competition. There are all kind’s of children’s books. I mean look at movies, when was last time you saw a successful entrepreneur not be a villain in a movie for your kids, even for adults? So there are lots of subtle messages out there promoting socialism,” she said, “But the good news for parents is, that we are our first and most influential teachers for our children. So we have more influence than they but we have to have these conversations and we have to start early.”
She promoted the book The Little Red Hen as a good starting point, which is the subject of the op-ed, saying you have to start early to get ahead of the message from their schools and American culture at large. “It’s the ultimate book about hard work and personal responsibility, deferred gratification, all the things that it takes to really achieve the American dream in America.”
Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked, “what do you tell your kids about socialism?”
“Well the first thing you want to do is listen to them because they’re getting a lot of these messages in class discussions, in their textbooks but I say, Ainsley, you have got to use all the time you have,” she said. She listed places where parents should take opportunities to promote capitalism to the kids. “In the car, dinnertime. If you have a small business, bring your kids to your work and show them what you do, and how a business works. Tax preparation time. Tell them how many months a year you work to give money to the government before you actually get to keep a dollar of it.”
“A lot of time kids don’t know these things,” she said. “It is up to us to teach them.”
Watch the clip above via Fox News Channel.
