Democrat politicians seem unable to wrap their heads around the simple concept that they need to leave children alone. Whether through some misguided personal beliefs, adherence to the demands of teacher’s unions, or both, elected officials on the left want to tighten the grip around your children as much as possible. As a result, you see them enacting mask mandates on small children even as they lift mask mandates for everyone else.

According to the New York Post, New York Mayor Eric Adams found over 100 parents had shown up in City Hall Park to protest the masking of their children in schools:

“[The mandate] is not following the science. This is making a mockery of the science. This is playing us for fools,’’ said rally-goer Daniela Jampel, a 38-year-old mother of three, including a 4-year-old in public pre-K, from Washington Heights.

“New York state recognizes the science. Everywhere else in New York state — 10 miles away in Nassau County, 10 miles away in Westchester County — toddlers are allowed to take off their masks along with their older brothers and sisters,’’ she said.

But  “our mayor and our new health commissioner tell us it’s not safe for toddlers to take off their masks,” Jampel told The Post at the rally.

This is counter-intuitive as children suffer the least from the COVID-19 pandemic, and has shown to actually be detrimental to the children, not beneficial. Not only do the masks not work as has now been admitted by even left-leaning “medical experts,” but children have been the least at-risk group for the virus from the beginning. Masking them doesn’t make any sense, and for a time it was common sense not to mask them. That seemed to change when the prospect of re-opening schools was on the table.

Adams’ office can’t seem to get its story straight about masking either. As the New York Post reported, Adams is assuring parents that the mask mandates for children will be lifted soon while his health czar, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, seems to believe kids will be masked indefinitely:

Confronted by an irate parent earlier this month, Adams assured that the toddler mandate would not be around for long, telling the concerned dad that the children  would “be unmasked.”

“I got this. I’ll take care of this,” the mayor said. “They’ll be unmasked.”

The comment seemed to be at odds with statements made last week by Vasan, who said that the mask mandates for children should remain “indefinitely.”

“I think it’s indefinite at this point,” Vasan said Friday. “People who have tried to predict the future in this pandemic have had egg on their face, and I’m not going to do that today.”

Vasan seems to be getting his facts from a bad source. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, between 0.1 and 1.5 percent of children need hospitalization when they contract COVID-19, and 0.01 or less die from it. Altogether, these are numbers and facts that scream unmasking is not just wise, it’s necessary.

This attempt to exert unnecessary control over children has put Democrats on a crash course with America’s parents, and they’ve been showing up around the nation to make it clear who is in charge when it comes to their children’s lives. It’s something Democrat politicians and their teacher’s unions don’t appreciate much, and there have been attempts to silence or punish parents who defy the will of the institutional left.

Needless to say, it hasn’t worked out for Democrats, who have put parents into a position to become an unofficial political party of their own.

(READ: Democrats Created a Political Party Far More Dangerous Than the Republicans)

Parents have been wreaking havoc on Democrat strongholds, including ousting Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, three school board members in San Francisco, and putting the fear in Democrat governors in states like New Jersey and Deleware enough that they have begun walking back their own mask mandates.

Democrats would be wise to obey parents lest they find themselves jobless like many of their other fellow politicians.