On Wednesday, CNN trotted out a bunch of fourth graders to give their opinion of the government shutdown. Chris Cuomo, host of CNN morning show New Day. “Out of the mouths of babes,” Cuomo said. “You keep hearing how people think congress is acting like children. We decided to test the idea and talk to actual kids and see how they would handle the situation. Turns out the fourth graders at the Immaculate Conception School in Queens, if they were in DC, we would be better off.”

The six students all give the government shutdown a thumbs done. Karl Hodge, a fourth grader, said, “they're going to shut down the government because of some of the government people.” Cuomo then prompts, “Does that sound scary?” The kids answer in unions: “Yes.” Cuomo asked fourth grader Jocelyn Harris, “When you were being taught how to work with somebody else in a situation, what are you taught? What are you supposed to do?” Harris answered, “you're supposed to share the things you do and agree and compromise when you have different agreements.”

Cuomo responded, “In congress, they didn't do it. They said you want to do one thing, I want to do another. We can't agree. So let's stop the government and not pay anybody and not do lots of things that we're supposed to do. Who likes that solution? Double thumbs down in the back row. I forgot to mention something. The members of Congress, when the government is shut down, and they send people home to their families with no pay, they still get paid.”

Young Carl concluded, “We're kids and sometimes kids, we have smarter ideas than grown-ups.” To which the CNN anchors responded, “Carl for Congress.”

When in doubt, CNN looks to frighten schoolchildren, then use them for propaganda.