...to hear you thinking aloud. That usually starts me to thinking more as well. When you reminded me of Children's literature, I thought about how much is based upon a utopian vision of society. Books have historically taught children that the policeman is always good, the grocer is always friendly and the neighbors are friendly and certainly don't sue eachother.

It seems to me children's stories and books are now dominated primarily by liberal authors. If I had a dime for every child who overcomes his/her diversity to reach a happy ending, I would have a jar full of dimes.

Indeed in Children's literature happy endings are legion. The only unhappy endings are in some fairy tales and in the German tale about Hans & Moritz who end up as cookies after causing many pranks and hiding in flour bags.

Many fairy tales seem dominated by anti-royalist, and now anti-wealthy themes, which was par for the course for the time they were written and today are par for the course for the politics of the authors.

I think in many ways the glorification of the poor, working person over royalty or the state has its roots in these tales. Jack and the beanstalk, Cinderella, Snow White and Rose Red, The King of the Golden River, Robin Hood and countless other have heroes who are poor and working class.

In America, during the conservative parts of the twentieth century we have seen the glorification of the government worker - the fireman, the mailman, the policeman, etc. Countless 1940's and 50s books addressed these people and their importance to the child. In the early sixties through the early seventies the focus was often on positive imagery for minorities, and for general self-esteem, etc. and shifted away from these "government and professional respectful" stories.

If conservative wish fulfillment dominated 40s and 50s children literature, liberal wish-fulfillment has dominated it ever since the mid-sixties.

A random example:

(Really! I just randomly picked this book off a children's book-site recommended reading list!)

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(excerpted from HedgeHogBooks.com - I have underlined the parts I find to be very liberal wish fulfillment)


The Paper Bag Princess by Munsch R
ISBN 0920236162
Ages 5-8; paperback;
Recognitions: Hedgie Pick
List price: $5.95
With Hedgie Pick discount: $5.36
103 in stock
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Review by Hedgie

What this book is about
Princess Elizabeth's future is perfectly planned. She has expensive clothes, a beautiful castle, and intends to marry a prince named Ronald. However a nasty dragon spoils her plans when he burns her castle and runs off with the prince. But this clever princess shows the reader it's not what you wear, but what's underneath that counts in this humorous tale.

A moment from the book
Elizabeth decided to chase the dragon and get Ronald back. She looked everywhere for something to wear, but the only thing she could find that was not burnt was a paper bag. So she put on the paper bag and followed the dragon. He was easy to follow because he left a trail of burnt forests and horses' bones.

What a child will get out of reading it
Hooray for a princess who rescues the prince, even if it's questionable as to whether he's worth rescuing. Princess Elizabeth has to lose everything before she can realize her true worth, and while she does the reader is able to savor every moment as she outwits a dragon and figures out her prince is not so charming.

Hedgie recommends this book for...
Kids will love the comical illustrations, and the dragon who thinks he's oh so smart, and Princess Elizabeth is a wonderful example of why "happily ever after" doesn't have to include a prince. Read this one to ages 5-8 and be sure to cheer for the resourceful heroine in the end.

About the author
Robert Munsch is the author of of many books for children including: LOVE YOU FOREVER, SHOW AND TELL, and PIGS.

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It's this sort of book that's anti-male, anti-conformist and basically designed to turn girls into poor, protesting San Francisco lesbians. It takes a nice jab at the wealthy by making her true worth only discoverable by being "a paper bag" princess. So being poor, anti-male and anti-conformist is the real message of this book.

;-)

To prove it....

Let's imagine a book...where the poor boy plans on marrying the poor girl and she is abducted by an Ogre. After he saves her using his ingenuity, he finds she is really not worth it and he goes from a pauper to becoming a wealthy man on the Ogre's gold. The reader discovers that "happily ever after doesn't have to include a poor girl."

I've never heard of such a book. And if such a book existed it would be panned as sexist and demeaning to women.

What does a young kindergarten boy listening to The Paper Bag Princess get out of it? A nice humiliation? Utter confusement? An inferiority complex?

Children's books have become disgustingly liberal - the fact that "Hedgie" finds this book so wonderful is amazing. That is the problem with the educational arena right now - the liberals own it lock, stock and barrel - and they are indoctrinating the kids from kindergarten on up with their own agenda-driven garbage.

You clearly read enough children's books - so you know my point is valid - if you're honest and objective. ;-)

I would say the greatest contemporary liberal wish fulfillment of all is right now manifested in children's books. Primarily because children are not able to discern the agendas and are very easy targets. Yes - they are targets for this stuff, and while conservatives wanted to create model citizens in the 40s and 50s - today the liberals want to create anti-authority, anti-conformist, anti-male democrat voters.

;-)

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