Last night at Adalante's, we were talking politics. It was clear from Nathan's comments that the other side of his family--with whom he lives on alternate weeks--is pro-Trump, anti-Hillary.
"Trump is going to build a wall to keep out all the Mexicans that bring drugs and crime," he said.
"Do you think all Mexicans bring drugs and crime?" I could tell that Will and Veronica weren't trying to convince him, but to let him air his opinions and ask questions.
"Well, Papi is from Mexico and he's not bad," Nathan said.
"If there had been a wall, we wouldn't be here," his mom said. "Papi and Tita brought us here when I was your age. If there had been a wall, we wouldn't have come...."
"Then I wouldn't be here," Nathan said. "And Elena wouldn't be here. And I wouldn't know...." he started naming the people he wouldn't know if he'd never been born, including me.
"Mommy and I are voting for Hillary," Elena said, sounding very definitive about the whole thing.
"Most people from Mexico are good, just a few bad ones," Nathan decided. "But Hillary is a bad liar. Isn't she? That's what I heard."
Out of the mouths of babes--you can hear the soundbites and beliefs of their parents. Having two sets of parents, Nathan hears both sides.
Nathan is a brilliant little boy, soaking up everything he hears and trying to make sense of discrepancies. Unlike Elena, however, he doesn't get to vote this year.
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