# My four year old has the election figured out **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 28, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168 "2012-10-28T23:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/1 "2012-10-28T23:48:11Z")
_Dad, you know those guys you told me about?_ What guys? _Those guys that wanna be President?_ Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? _Why do they have the same name?_ It’s not the same name. _It sounds kinda the same._ Was that what you wanted to tell me? _What I wanted to say was, they should, um, they should just share it._ They should share being President? _Yeah._ You mean like both of them would be President at the same time? _Yeah. Cause sharing is a nice thing to do._ That’s an… interesting idea. But what would they do if they had a really big decision to make, and they couldn’t agree on the right thing to do? _Then they would just talk about it._ And what if they still didn’t agree? _Then they would talk and talk and talk until they both agree on the right thing to do for the world._ But what if they _still_ couldn’t agree? _Then they could ask all the people who work for them._ They’d let the people who work for them decide? _Yeah, why not?_ And what if those people couldn’t agree, either? _Then they’d ask the people who work for them, and they’d ask the people who work for them, and they’d ask the people who work for them, and so on. Gee whiz!_ [I’m pretty sure she learned to talk that way from Dr. Seuss.] I guess this is kind of a MPSIMS post, but it _is_ about the election ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/2 "2012-10-28T23:57:47Z")
Oh sure; let’s all just share everything and talk things through until we reach a mutually agreeable consensus! :dubious: Who wants to live in a world like _that_?!?!??!! :rolleyes: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/3 "2012-10-29T00:13:08Z")
I like this sharing thing. I get Michelle Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I get Ann Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Sunday’s my day of rest, of course. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/4 "2012-10-29T00:18:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Oh sure; let’s all just share everything and talk things through until we reach a mutually agreeable consensus! :dubious: Yeah, the poor kid is going to be pretty disappointed in all of us adults when she learns how the world actually works. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/5 "2012-10-29T00:23:35Z")
Wonderful mature daughter. She’s learned to share before kindergarten. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/6 "2012-10-29T00:35:00Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > I like this sharing thing. > > I get Michelle Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I get Ann Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. > > Sunday’s my day of rest, of course. No, no, no… Sunday is hot Michelle on Ann action, DUH! ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/7 "2012-10-29T01:21:59Z")
Around that age I made my mum quite uncomfortable when I said that I thought politicians wanted _everyone_ to be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/8 "2012-10-29T01:26:29Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > No, no, no… > Sunday is hot Michelle on Ann action, DUH! I can watch and rest at the same time. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/9 "2012-10-29T01:49:18Z")
You can tell your kid that the Romans already tried that: They called their co-executives “consuls”. It didn’t work out ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/10 "2012-11-02T01:46:21Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > _What I wanted to say was, they should, um, they should just share it._ Socialism!? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/11 "2012-11-02T01:56:45Z")
Why are you raising such a socialist 4 year old? Give her a copy of Atlas Shrugged already! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/12 "2012-11-02T03:24:28Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > Yeah, the poor kid is going to be pretty disappointed in all of us adults when she learns how the world actually works. 🙂 Maybe not. I think we’ve all worked some place where issues get talked to death and nothing ever gets done as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/13 "2012-11-02T03:47:24Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > . . . _Then they’d ask the people who work for them, and they’d ask the people who work for them, and they’d ask the people who work for them, and so on. Gee whiz!_ . . . That’s actually a close approach to democracy; we ask everybody, and go with the idea that more people like. That’s actually darned sophisticated for a 4yo! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-four-year-old-has-the-election-figured-out/639168/14 "2012-11-02T03:49:35Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Maybe not. I think we’ve all worked some place where issues get talked to death and nothing ever gets done as a result. Congress?