I remember doing this in the 2000 election when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, lived in a very conservative suburb, but our class of little kids voted for Gore over Bush after being given a very simple "objective" list of the candidates platform/campaign talking points. I remember going home and telling my dad that I voted for Gore like "because he cares about the trees and keeping the environment clean" or something like that, and my dad, a lifelong Republican, was like "No he doesn't, he just pretends to care about that, everything he says is a lie, just like everything Clinton said was a lie. Clinton went on TV and lied right in the face of all Americans, liberals are all like that, you can't believe a single word that comes out of their mouths". And now, looking back on it, it's somewhat true (though not the way he meant it) but holy shit I feel like little kids naturally have some amount of empathy and compassion that needs to be beaten out of them via indoctrination to produce conservative voters.
I remember doing this in the 2000 election when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, lived in a very conservative suburb, but our class of little kids voted for Gore over Bush after being given a very simple "objective" list of the candidates platform/campaign talking points. I remember going home and telling my dad that I voted for Gore like "because he cares about the trees and keeping the environment clean" or something like that, and my dad, a lifelong Republican, was like "No he doesn't, he just pretends to care about that, everything he says is a lie, just like everything Clinton said was a lie. Clinton went on TV and lied right in the face of all Americans, liberals are all like that, you can't believe a single word that comes out of their mouths". And now, looking back on it, it's somewhat true (though not the way he meant it) but holy shit I feel like little kids naturally have some amount of empathy and compassion that needs to be beaten out of them via indoctrination to produce conservative voters.