Parent: Want Your Kid To Be Just As Hateful and Ignorant As You Are Yourself?

The text accompanying the ad reads: Public schools are brainwashing our kids about the “benefits” of socialism! We’re setting the record straight with our FREE Kids Guide to Fighting Socialism. Order this free kids (sic) guide today and get 2 bonus gifts, too! 

As a tutor in the public school system, I can attest that this is simply not true.  But more to the point, I would ask: What’s the problem with teaching our kids the truth?

• Pure socialism, like pure capitalism, exists nowhere on Earth.

• The United States government offers its citizens the least number of social programs among all the developed countries.

• As you read the list of government-sponsored programs provided to all Americans, ask yourself if getting rid of them would make our lives better and safer in any way.

Turning our kids into little Trump supporters, i.e., youngsters whose understanding of the world around them is paper thin and completely warped, is a terrible thing to do.  These people should be ashamed of themselves.

The U.S. government, via its tax base, provides each American with infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.