big bird?

From Sesame Street. And yes, it was politicized not too long ago. It feels like ages, but that's just 2025 for ya.

Sesame Street has been mocking Trump for years (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Indoctrination machine works as intended. And then everyone is shocked seeing historical footage of children enthusiastically greeting Hitler. Never again! Anyway, time for Fox News.

The US is a lost cause.

Children that young mostly just copy what their parents say and do. It's not the children who are political. It's their parents who are doing a piss-poor job of raising them.

Children that age don't need to know much about politics, especially specifically about politicians. At that age, you'll do much better to teach them about values than about politics.

You can hear when they copy their parents, but kids aren't as isolated as you seem to believe. Even when they cannot read they have eyes and ears and lots of input from other people, ads, media... and kids easily pick up on the important stuff one way or another.

I will always try to teach them values when they ask questions about politicians or politics or our world going to shit.
And I don't think it's bad that they hear about in the first place, and have their own thoughts about it.

Shit's important. Of course kids pick up on it.

(sorry I'm still half replying to that other guy)

I heard them say "Trump is stupid" and they were clearly copying their parents. But then we also talked about Ukraine and who has to go to war and they were genuinely worried that they or their dads or big brothers will have to go too. Kids crave these conversations, it gives them so many opportunities to learn about society and values. Give them real answers, don't shut them out.

(Sorry I tend to talk about kids like this hive mind fluttering around me; of course each is individual)

Yes, children get information not only from their parents, but from other sources. Like their friends, who get it from their parents. Like the media that their parents allow them to consume..... Wow, it seems like it really does all come down to piss poor parenting, after all.

The thing that really made my kid anti-trump? When some of his classmates started getting nervous about ICE visits.

Discussing politics is healthy. I really wish more people would vote. The damn country is run by politicians who had more people not vote than vote for them.