I'm not just upset with the options in front of me anymore. I'm pissed. More accurately, I'm disgusted. This is the first year that I, along with anyone born in 1994-1998 can vote, and despite looking forward to this opportunity my entire life, I do not want to vote. Neither do any of my friends.
This year it is imperative that everyone registered votes in this election. We're voting between two of the most hated candidates in all of history. Since 1776, no candidates have ever been as disliked as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In all of this incredible country's 240 years, the first election current college students get to vote in is by far, the worst ever. Why is that though? What is wrong with the candidates we get the option to choose between? Well, there's a lot of things:
Hillary Clinton
Now, Secretary Clinton is presumably the winning candidate after another week of horrible and true accusations against Trump. Obviously, Clinton's team had people searching for Alicia Machado and the hot mic, off camera recording with Billy Bush from 2005. Why didn't the Republican National Committee do this a year ago, so that Trump could've maybe been stopped by the same party he's nearly destroyed?
Secretary Clinton is intimidating and robotic. Whether you're a member of team #I'mWithHer or not, she's not the open, hip candidate Obama was, in fact, she opts out of any public meeting where she'll have to answer to the press. She hasn't had a press conference in nearly a year. She's literally denying people of their first amendment rights. Secretary Clinton is obviously scared of being asked questions she wasn't overly prepared for. She needs to be accountable, but won't even take the first steps towards it by being open and honest with the very people she's depending on getting her back into the White House.
Donald Trump
Do not even get me started. He is unfit, temperamental and rude. A man who thinks he can control a woman with sex, but won't let her get an abortion has no right telling a woman what to do in 2016. His most recent comments are disgusting, although they were ten years ago, he should never have thought it was ok to refer to women in such a way.
The entire way he has run his campaign seems to be based on gossip techniques that most girls used in middle school. He hasn't even been successful in digging up damaging information against Secretary Clinton. Instead, he's made wild, false claims and goes on late night twitter rants – two things no potential leader of the free world should even think of doing. Honestly, I think Ashton Kutcher is going to pop out at one of his rallies yelling, "You've Been Punk'd America!"
He has brought up one extremely valid point: people are upset with the establishment. They're upset enough that they would vote for a businessman and reality show character. Maybe it's gross that he hasn't paid federal taxes since before the turn of the century, but it does show he's a smart businessman. But hey, he and the Clinton's both figured out how to hide their wealth somehow, whether that be not paying taxes or through charities.
Third Party
Gary Johson didn't know what Aleppo was, nor was he able to name a foreign leader he admired. The only truly positive thing about Jill Stein, leader of the Green Party, is that she dislikes both major candidates equally. Although we all may agree with her, you probably don't care much about either of these candidates or are thinking of voting libertarian out of pure disgust with the major party candidates.
Let's all hope this election ends quickly and easily...
