What Are We Teaching Our Kids?

The thought occurred to me a while ago and came back yesterday.

Of the roughly 63 million votes Donald Trump received, many of those people have children. Right? Right. Of those 62+ million, how many of them teach their kids to be respectful, love their neighbor, tell the truth and act kindly? Lots. What else are they telling their young’uns? Bullying is bad. Touching others where they don’t want to be touched is bad. Being mean is bad. Cheating is bad. Stealing is bad. There are many more, and most of us know the right and wrong list. There’s a certain amount of decency that is taught to and expected of children, and these principals are taught to them by parents, neighbors, relatives, teachers.

I’m just one person but I believe the virtues my parents instilled in me are common for parents everywhere. And, if I wasn’t respectful, if I was mean to my sisters, if I told a lie I was punished — often times with a mouth full of soap, a terrible thing I can still taste when thinking about it. Sometimes I got spanked. Many-a-time I was sent to my room or into the basement to “think about what I’d done.” Let’s just say, I was not a model citizen in the household I lived in and my parents wanted me to know that it was not okay for me, a small child, to act like an asshole.

Just under 63 million people voted for Donald Trump in 2016. My parents among them. And tens of millions of people will vote for him again in November. He is a compulsive liar. He’s a bully. He’s a sexual predator. To make it worse, kids are…