the guy that's carried out more deportations than the entire history of the united states?

(except for his presidency, amirite?

golly, trillary's scary.

what will you say to your son then? As Obama's third term, she will most likely try to outdo him to prove that she can get more done than a man.

You might want to invite your son to sit with you through a Jill Stein speech or two and introduce him to a different possibility. In eight years he will be of voting age, and showing him that there are alternatives should start early.

You need to do what you believe is right. Not that I am recommending anything, but you could vote for the Pope and tell him Hillary for all he'll know. That brings this back to it is your vote and your kid. You need to do what you believe is right.

What state are you in? How much will your vote "matter?"

Not that that's the real issue, I guess.

That pretty much sums up my whole family. We are not voting for President we are voting against Trump.

Essentially here in North Carolina we are voting to get McCrory and Burr out of office so we can be done with HB2 which is NOT supported by the people of the State and is causing much suffering. Where we are their are only the two candidates who could possibly win the electoral votes so we may as well make sure it isn't Trump.

But if large majorities keep voting for the duopoly, then all we'll get is more lies, crap and corruption.

'Wasting your vote' relies on the false LOTE premise. If enough people voted for who they actually wanted, a third/fourth party might actually become a second party.

Anyway, good luck. Last night's 'debate' changed nothing at Palazzo Bollox. Stein will get my inked-in oval.

I presume not.

So, why would you let these two boys twist in the wind like that, terrified?

And then let that boy terrify his parents in his own language?

Rather than explaining to your anguished family and friends that Trump was talking about people who were in the US illegally? That they were not the targets.

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By the same token, Trump's stance toward the undocumented is the one thing that bothers me most. I am well aware that as president, he would have absolutely no power whatsoever to do anything at all. He will be blocked at every turn by the Republicans and any Democrats that manage to get elected after the shameful disgrace of their association with the Party of Deeper Corruption.

However, Trump can enforce laws made by congress. He could deport even more people that Obama has, although that is a damned high bar. He cannot deport tens of millions of people, however. That would cost billions of dollars he does not have and take 20 to 30 years to accomplish.

Why voting for a murderer and war criminal like Hillary, who can get a shitload of corruption through Congress, including more terrorist horrors to inflict upon the brown world, makes you feel better — I don't get that. But since Americans get screwed no matter who they elect, it hasn't ever mattered in my lifetime.

I'll grant you, though, that this election is different. It's the first time a non-establishment outsider — who scares the Neocons to death — has been a candidate in a Presidential election.

Me, I would have been in there he next morning to talk to the teacher, probably very politely. I would have explained that you are a supporter of Jill Stein (without getting political, maybe say she plays a better tennis game, LOL) and wish that she would include her in the project so your son can be included fairly.

I did talk this with teachers when Catholicism was the state religion in Bolivia and a required course of study every year. Later we helped pass a new constitution with basic fundamental rights to freedom of and from religion. They still teach classes in "Philosophy and Morals"...

But you are in a rare situation. If you and all the other parents of children with auditory processing disabilities, of an age to care about this election without understanding it, have to vote for Hillary for the sake of your children, then it will move the needle not much at all. So if you end up feeling that you need to vote Hillary for your son's benefit, I say go for it.

That said, does the above mean he can understand the written word better than the spoken word? You do have more than a month to explain everything to him. Maybe you could do that with some written material? Charts, maps, photos, graphs?

I agree with others in the comments that if possible, it would be best to explain to him that there are (at least) four candidates in the race, and that Stein and Johnson are viable because they got on the ballot in most of the states (you could show him the map at Stein2016.com). You could show him polls showing Clinton and Trump with the huge numbers, with Stein and Johnson not cracking 10%, and explain that this is why the teacher is just covering the two main candidates. I agree that you don't want him asking you later why you didn't tell him there were other candidates or why you didn't vote for the lady who was better than Hill.

You could tackle one piece of the whole at a time, and let one thing sink in before you move on to another. After all, you have more than a month.

I do like the suggestion of talking with the teacher so you're both on the same page. Tell her she's put you in a spot where you feel like you're lying to your son and you don't like that feeling. She may have more suggestions for how to clarify. She may also give your son a break if in his eventual report, he ends up a little confused.

If in the end, though, you still feel like you really have no alternative but to vote for Hill to be able to tell him truthfully that you did so, then I would give you a pass. Do so without guilt. Your child is more important than these politicians.

Good luck!

I think I got this here, and it's a real gem.

If you vote for someone other than Hillary, that doesn't mean you vote for Drumpf -- no matter how many times people say it, it isn't true.

If it were a truth, and you vote for someone other than Drumpf, then you are clearly voting for Hillary. Regardless of who wins.

I see no problem here.

However we reserve the right to blame you when Clinton turns the world to shit.