Everyone is so afraid of the other side winning in this election, but you need have no fear, because little will change no matter the outcome. Yet, maybe you should be, because little will change. The ideological differences between say, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are quite um... obvious, but if either candidate wins, how much will change? Here are three reasons why most likely very little will:
1. The American political system is designed to fight, tooth and nail, against change.
Our government has so many checks and balances in every branch of government to ensure that no one sector becomes too influential. Yet most of these powers involve stopping or preventing new legislature. The only branch capable of creating new legislation is that of the Congress and House, yet these governing bodies are divided to the degree that an overpowering majority is not possible. Even still, the minority has the ability to filibuster, or talk a bill to death. So even when a bill will pass by majority vote, it probably won't because it's rarely given the chance to move to the voting phase. When a bill does move on to the President, he is given the ability to veto, or otherwise destroy it. If he does approve of the action, the Supreme Court can now consider it constitutional or otherwise. The point being that each action is given every opportunity to fail, and so unless virtually all of government is united under one cause, nothing can change.
2. The President isn't so powerful after all.
While the position may hold the title of 'most powerful man in the world', and that may be true, but still its not strong enough. I mean what real power does he (please not her, at least not this time around) possess. Fine he can create a few executive orders, or veto a bill or two, or even send military abroad at his whim (and even then for only 60 days without congressional approval). Yet its quite evident that those powers are not enough, otherwise the country would have changed starkly between the Bush and Obama administration, and there is no denying it hasn't. And a stout supporter of Obama's work will say "Hey, what about the economic turnaround". Well, when you can pinpoint the real action that he took to fix it then I may rethink this article. Bottomline, the country doesn't look very different. See Presidents ride events, they are accredited with good and blamed for bad. They DO NOT however, split the Red Sea itself.
3. Lobbying
Lobbying is any form of influencing politicians to make legislature happen, or in some cases, not happen. Not all lobbying is bad; according to definition, if I petitioned the government, that would be considered lobbying. This is, however, not the form of lobbying that I'm referring too. I'm talking about that which includes the $3.3 billion dollars given in 2012 alone, to 'encourage' politicians to see just where these influential individuals are coming from. What this means, is that our political system is bought. That means that the reason why certain politicians oppose say environmental regulation, or support wall street deregulation, has nothing to do with their intelligence or morals. Rather it more so has something to do with who lines their pockets, big business. And when money speaks, the truth is silent.
