Fox News suggests tying voting rights to having more kids
The last election didn’t go Fox News’ way, but they’re backing a plan to manufacture more votes.
“Hillbilly Elegy” author and Ohio senate candidate J.D. Vance suggested last week that parents should be able to vote on behalf of their children now because the country will some day belong to them.
“Fox & Friends” advanced that idea Sunday, suggesting that Democrats who don’t have kids, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg, should have less say in the democratic process.
“(Vance) is saying childless leaders are making decisions that are short-term in mind, not focused on the long-term future health of this country because they don’t have a stake in the game,” host Will Cain said. “Parents have a stake in the game, they have children, so give parents a bigger say.”
“I don’t know about that solution, that seems not feasible, but I will say that I agree with the premise of it,” added co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, a former reality TV star who has nine children.
She named transportation secretary Buttigieg, who married his husband Chasten Buttigieg in 2018, as an example. Fox’s Pete Hegseth took aim at “our favorite comrade” Ocasio-Cortez, 31, for her climate change activism, which he considers pessimistic.
“It’s this idea of absolute pessimism that the world’s going to end and as a result, we’re ‘the problem’ and ‘don’t have kids,’ ” he concluded.
Campos-Duffy wrapped things up with an ultimatum and a theory.
“Do you want to pass AOC’s America off to America or J.D. Vance’s?” said Campos-Duffy. “American Marxists want to tear down the American family.”
Fox News host Jesse Watters told viewers last week that humanity should just roll with climate change rather than taking action to contain it.
“If you want to stop climate change, you don’t fight climate change,” he said. “If it’s getting warmer, you adapt to it.”
The right-wing cable channel has also fought off criticism of its COVID-19 coverage since the start of the pandemic with its spotty position on vaccines being at the root of its latest controversy.
