At the risk of torpedoing this thread once again, I will chime in and personally attest, as an American, that this election is in fact a total farce, one which makes the nastiness of 2012 look like the Cub Scouts by comparison.
As one who voted Marco Rubio in the Primaries and would have probably come to make peace with any of the other Republicans against the awful Hillary Clinton(even Jeb Bush, who was my very last choice for a while), I stare with incredulity at what I'm seeing on a day-to-day basis. Clinton is evasive, probably corrupt, and Trump is a downright frightening choice. There is no good choice, and Clinton's awfulness and flat out dishonesty rates as a lesser evil between her and Trump(I also can't stand Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate). Not someplace I ever thought we would be a year ago, though I did always think Trump would have staying power.
At least the 'Leave' people, like proper Englishmen, knew how to properly dress and how to frame their arguments in something resembling an intelligent way. The average Trump supporter...does neither of those things.
I'm leaning towards a write in vote for either Erin Burnett or Curtis Sliwa, though I could easily see voting Clinton/Kaine if I felt it was absolutely necessary(I live in a swing state, which increases the stakes considerably). The latter will make me a lot of enemies in the part of Georgia where I live, but I'm almost to the point of not caring at all. After all, while my distaste for Clinton is purely ideological, my distaste with Trump is moral. The former can be remedied by Republican retention of Congress. Aside from intervention of the Divine, I'm not sure how the latter can be helped.
BTW, a good piece on the latest Trump flap, the one regarding Skittles and Syrian refugees--Sinister is the word: https://theintercept.com/2016/09/20/...-at-nuremberg/