As we draw near to the upcoming election cycle, there are issues, ideas, and an enormous array of people with different opinions, facts, biases and as a
1. 3rd Party Votes are now a relevant thing in the election.
Before, many people considered 3rd party votes as a thing that only hippies or people who were apathetic to Democrat or Republican candidates but wanted to vote anyway. Usually, these parties have been seen as a throwaway vote, when in reality, whenever someone votes in a democracy, it usually isn't a throwaway. It's the people who don't vote that makes democracy not work. It is unfortunate to see, however, that many people are choosing not to vote and leave the opportunity to pick a competent leader in someone else's hands. Democracy, unfortunately, does not work in a way where only a majority or in what seems to be a case, a minority of people make the decision.
2. Only a small number of people are concerned about the election, and most are opinionated.
Which, in reality, is very (almost extremely) concerning regarding the state of the US with those who are interested. Because of the negative press that both of the major candidates have been getting, there seems to be a low number of people who want to make an informed decision who haven't (or have avoided) negative press.
3. Social tension will test the two white candidates.
Black Lives Matter, Dakota Pipeline, Immigration, and other issues that have little to do with the white community are beginning to take center stage and the candidates are beginning to see that talking about big promises won't help their stance with these issues.
4. People seem to still ignore congress.
So, remember that thing in High school government class where they told you that the House of Representatives gets re-elected every so often? Yeah, this is a year where this is happening. Everyone also seems to forget that the president does not have all the ultimate power for huge things like nukes, war, laws, and policy. Although congress will have different seats, if congress is duly elected, then the people can truly be represented, but unfortunately not many understand it as so.
5. Will politics still be the same?
Well, now that a businessman with absolutely no political experience that is considered an "outsider" who is only rich because of a wealthy inheritance and famous because of firing people, and a person with high political experience potentially being charged with a criminal act and having countless other accusations, both being slandered or praised by the media in an all out information battle over the public vote, then no, politics won't quite be the same. There are still a lot of unanswered questions in my mind as to who or what my representatives, from my county to my nation should reflect, and how I as an american react to the different sides of not only what I see, but what I have yet to see and what I can't currently see.
Still a hard decision, and an even harder choice for the U.S. Read parts One and Two here.
