It’s no wonder why so many millennials are losing interest in politics – modern American politics are corrupt.
When we’re in elementary school, we learn that the citizens of the United States vote for their president and the person with the most votes wins.
In reality, that’s not the case. American citizens can vote all they want, but the Electoral College has the power and ability to override the popular vote.
How does that represent democracy? We, the people, are supposed to have the freedom to choose our leader, yet our choice can be overridden if electors don’t vote according to the popular vote.
That in itself is enough to become fed up with our political system. What really irritates me about American politics is that the presidential race has become more of a joke than anything.
If voters were rational and they made decisions based on things like policy, ideology and electability, Donald Trump would not be in the running – but he is. It doesn’t make a lot of sense – unless you throw out all that nobility and seriousness nonsense.
In the past, elections were serious. Candidates were voted on based on how well they could do their job.
This election is just a popularity contest and it’s one that won’t be decided by rational voters – it will be decided by people whose rationales for supporting their favorite candidate don’t seem to make a lot of sense.
Voters seem to have given up on being serious and our candidates have done the same.
The candidates in this current election are acting more immature than anything and I don’t really feel like living in a country that is run by a 12-year-old.
The debates have become nothing short of schoolyard arguments – accusations of having small hands and subsequently, small nether regions.
Candidates are talking over each other, calling each other names and using personal attacks when they can’t argue effectively.
It’s hard to know if these are just the actions of the Republican Party or if it’s everybody, but the Republican debates seem to be the epicenter of the middle school antics.
These things are not the things that we should be seeing in the candidates who will one day be running our country.
What we are watching in today’s election is the worst result of the Kim Kardashian effect – being famous for being famous – embracing American politics.
This election, more so than almost any in our history, is just a popularity contest and the most popular guy is winning. Somebody save us.
SAMANTHA GRISWOLD
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