How Do You Talk To Your Kids About This Crazy, Horrible Election?

Originally published on LonelyConservative.com

This post at PJ Media by Patricia Lott Williford about how she and her husband talk to their kids about this dreadful election has been brought to my attention. Her kids are younger than mine, so it’s a little bit different in my house, but it’s still pretty spot-on with us, or at least me.

Again with the credibility. Say you’d like to learn more before you make up your mind, and you’ve just moved up a couple notches. So we talked about debates, how they’re meant to let us hear what the candidates have to say, but it’s really a contest about many other things that have little to do with political views.

“Mom, who are you voting for?”

I told them that I am as yet undecided, that I can’t bring myself to commit to anybody yet. I think Trump is absurd and Hillary raises some question marks. I told them that I’d really like for everyone to put all the pieces back in the box and start fresh, like getting new letters during your turn in a game of Scrabble.

But then I reminded them, “Guys, who’s ultimately in charge?”

“God.”

Read the whole thing. My only disagreement would be that God gives us free will, which is why we are left with these horrific choices. And even though He is in charge, we could go through history and name a whole lot of terrible human beings who have taken power and done terrible things. Not much comfort there.

But anyway, I was just talking tonight with my fifteen year old son and my husband about this election. I hate to admit it, but there were a lot of f bombs thrown around. We have a choice between an unindicted felon and a total psychopath.

If the Republicans can hold on to the House and Senate at least they will oppose the felon, but what will they do if the psychopath wins? What will happen if the felon wins and Democrats find a way to win the majority? What will happen if the psychopath wins and his party controls everything? Who will have the courage to oppose him?

We come up with answers to these questions, but none of the answers give us any comfort. We live in New York, so it doesn’t really matter who we vote for, but still, it just sucks. We have no cheerful warrior in the mold of Ronald Reagan, who was a natural at connecting with the American people. We just have these two miserable choices, and then the Libertarians. If only they would get their act together.

At this point all I know is that I want to raise my kids to be decent, hard working people. I wish we didn’t have to worry about politics, but no matter what we do, politics will find a way to intrude into our lives.

So that’s where we are and that’s what we talk about. Oh, and our twelve year old doesn’t really care.

What are you saying to your kids?

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