The leader of the free world. The President of the United States. The individual in charge of weighing his opinion and will on 4800 nuclear warheads and a 16.77 trillion dollar GDP. History, aside from a few debatable examples, this position is filled by scholars, generals, literal geniuses, philosophers, and more. Who America chooses to be their spoken representative is a responsibility beyond words, and yet it seems that in this election, absolute madness has taken over the primary race.
This presidential race appears to be a work of satire. Insane racist statements from Donald Trump. Declaratory, non-sourced non-facts about history spewed by Ben Carson. Hilary Clinton uses womanhood and 9/11 as a clutch, and Kanye West airs his political voice and gets a positive realistic reaction from a young audience.
Young people in America hold the key to changing the political spectrum. Yet it seems that the only time anyone thinks about voting, is when the primary election has rolled out. Your political woes, dependent seemingly entirely on where you were born, and who your parents are, are threatened or are enhanced by the media. This, or their favorite actors, or a viral campaign.
So few know and understand the depths of international politics beyond the yearly hot button issue. So few see past the domestic flairs. How can we have an entire generation unaware of the trials that they will face economically? A generation that refuses to understand the differences between what being a conservative or a liberal is, beyond the confines of a religious zealot in a cowboy hat or a screaming college kid in paint dripping overalls. There is a serious issue of political non-education, that should be a matter of concern with the older voting generation, but even more so with the college students of America, who seem to year after year to neglect the fact that there is more to an election than bumper stickers in the primaries and t-shirts in the generals.
How, Trump can be a poll leading candidate is something that should worry the right as much as the left. What Donald Trump has achieved is not good for anybody. He has answered the call of the most uniformed voters by giving them the most general answers to the most broad topics. He is Fox News. He is Bill O' Reilly. He has no proper plans, or forethought beyond the scripted talking points that have lead him into a opinion led lead.
The right’s concerns of a small government, of straying away from a Keynesian economics model, of fighting China’s capitalist enterprise, of reviving the “American Dream” are not well represented by the loud mouthed buffoon who has managed to spend more than he has earned. He is not an earner, he is not Reagan. The right has to leave the regressive ideologies that have become ingrained with what is, in its truest form, a political platform. Young earth creationism, moronic patriarchal family units, bigotry, and challenging the scientific community have somehow all become part of the republican mindset.
Why, is what I, as an nonpartisan observer, can not understand. If it is necessary for the candidates of the most important country on earth to answer a question on their “belief” of evolution, and it weighs a significant enough weight for them to deny the existence of a scientific fact, then there is certainly something wrong with what political party they belong to.
Why are we not seeing the press drill Marco Rubio on Turkey and their current threat to NATO in their aggressive stands? Or Iraq’s influence in their regional tactical moves against what is Russia’s foreign interest? Why are we not seeing resolutions aimed towards improving dialogue with India and China on trade agreements? Or plans to incorporate Latin America into a guided economic development setting where then, immigration could begin to see solutions? These issues, of involvement, spending, budgeting, war efforts, all seem to escape the mind in CNN debates and Fox News interviews.
Yet, the same occurs for the left. Sure, the ballot isn’t plastered with insane talking heads, all attempting to talk over each other and speak for their highest bidder, or the most insane philosophical pleas as much, but it is not safe from complete hilarity. Clinton has justified her Wall Street donors through the means of being a woman and 9/11. She has been at the center of several money centered issues, and still somehow manages to be wrapped up in scandal after scandal all building a character of an untrustworthy politician.
The only candidate, in the left, that the youth of America seems to be putting their chips in is hard left, good values, always faithful Bernie Sanders. His politics of speaking on the issues, not taking big money donors, and keeping a clean political race all speak to me, beyond his political platform, of a centered and well rounded human being. However, it seems less than realistic that the youth who hasn’t shown up to vote in the past twenty years, will suddenly show up and vote for Bernie Sanders. Beyond that, having a man who declares himself a socialist, a concept and idea that evades most people who hear or read it, win the general election, seems less than likely.
Finally, it's amazing to me that the uninformed voters of America seem so concerned with whether loud mouthed Trump or commie Sanders will win the election, seeing as local officials, State Governors, the House of Representatives, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, in ascending order, hold much, much more power than the president alone.
Your local laws are not enacted by a dictatorial ruler, rather a democratic, spread, and a complicated group of people. When is the last time a group of friends argued whether or not their Senator served them the best? Whether or not a law in a ballot mattered? Seems that if isn’t marijuana or gay marriage, over the past ten years, young people have had little to nothing to say in regards to the political outcomes in America. You don’t get rights without acting on your responsibilities, and because democracy still exists, the citizens of America are literally, the leaders of the free world. Do something about it.
