Almost as good as Lichtman’s keys!
48% of these kids frighten me.
Nah, it’s just kids parroting their parents views. I did the same thing as a child, and I’m about as far left as you can get as an adult.
Don’t worry. It all comes down to the hands of like 100k voters in a few random swing states.
The thing about this is, I was a kid in 1996 when Bill Clinton ran against Bob Dole.
Our whole elementary school had a big educational event about the election. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton both sent personalized videos to our schools, explaining what they stood for, and we had a mock election.
My grade overwhelmingly went for Bill Clinton. (I want to say, he had a very easy-to-understand platform regarding the importance of education, and the impact it would have on us, the future electorate. And Bob Dole was… Bob Dole.)
Did I mention I grew up in a very Roman Catholic, very hardcore Republican house? That I grew up in Oklahoma, a red state?
I wasn’t the only kid standing up to my parents over the results!
I guess what I’m saying is, if the children are aware, and still choosing Trump, we need to know why. Kids don’t have a problem voting against their parents, as long as they understand the issues. And if they don’t understand the role they play in their country, we should be extending further education.
I really think that we are failing our children. Our educational system is disgraceful.
But was that enough to win the Nickelodeon’s Kids Electoral College?
It wouldn’t be an electoral college in this case. It would be an electoral… middle school?
They’re still looking into it. There is currently some debate about some ‘hanging Cheetos’ and they’re going to ask Mom and Dad to clarify some wording.
That 48% makes me so fucking sad…
It’s mostly kids mimicking their parents feelings. Which is not the MOST sad. But still not great.
I think this is much sadder than just the parents thinking like this. Kids should get to be kids and start their lives unencumbered by their parents’ hatred and bitterness.
Unfortunately kids are born with all the sins our world already bares. We can wish and hope for them to be free of the. But that is not reality. No matter what what’s happening is happening and will affect them. We must be better about giving them that world actively and preparing them as needed to be adults in this world.
Hmmm. And what do you think happens when those kids grow up? Let’s connect the dots, eh?
I don’t know, but I’m sure someone will sell them an assualt rifle with unlimited ammunition.
Had some people in a duel enrollment (collage level) class tell me last Friday that they’d vote for trump because “he’s an asshole but I like his policies”
Don’t worry, at the collage level they’re just bringing a bunch of pictures together
48% to Trump is embarrassing. This country is failing our children.
Unfortunately kids parrot the hate and political leanings of their parents until they grow older at least
Really shows where the problem lies. Indoctrination. Results not much different than the national poll.
The worst part is knowing that they’re (most likely) just listening to the loudest voter in their household even if other opinions manage to exist in their family.
I only remembered my dad talking about Bush or scoffing at this or that “donkey” thing so I thought it was Bush and the elephants I was supposed to like. I know I would have voted as such in something like this because I didn’t know any better at 6-8 years old, although I’m not finding the kids’ age ranges in this mock election. Anyway, I still didn’t know any better in junior high, I remember voting for Bush again in a 7th grade social studies poll on the 2004 elections. I recall the teacher saying even the results amongst one class were usually a pretty accurate reflection of the actual election results, right down to the goob who voted for Nader.
It took me going to college in the purplest damn section of a pretty red state for me to come to terms with what I actually believed and felt about people and politics. Further education was definitely key, and intertwined with that, it opened me up to people. Just talking to people in an environment where you’re all on essentially the same operating level day to day is huge.
My dad kept doing his thing in the small town where everyone knew everyone and somehow managed to sleep with everyone, too. He turned into a Trumper. I did my thing and I admit, it took me a lot of those four years of working on projects and getting pissed about loans together but really just enjoying life with a modestly diverse, pretty tolerant student body (still a lot of white raised-as-protestant types) to undo the damage of a conservatively skewed and Catholic childhood. But I can tell you that by 2014 I was annoyed at myself for not caring about the 2012 election, this first time I could vote. And you can guess I most certainly never even considered supporting Trump or any of the terrible things he represents when he suddenly-to-me showed up.
Would it make any reasonable sense for my dad to go to college at his age? No, probably not. But how do we get people to “simply” live around and be exposed to more people with relatively little prejudice in social status?
Do we just … Idk where I’m going with this I got high but wait just a tick here did I just reason myself into communism fuckityshit
When Harris wins she needs to weaponize the military against the children who chose Trump. It’s only fair.
Imagine the shit storm of she wasn’t completely on-the-ball at every second of the campaign.
