The worst thing to come into the political and social world has to be social media. Specifically Facebook. I hate getting on Facebook more than anything. It's filled with politics but not in an informative or positive way. Are politics positive? Sometimes I doubt that it's possible to associate positivity with the word political.

I am only just now at the age to vote and have only recently become aware of what is going on in the broader scheme of events. I try to my best to portray myself as unbiased, because no one wants to listen to someone who is screaming their opinion, especially when your opinion contrasts with someone else's'. It's very difficult to do so being that I am an eighteen year old college student and we have a stereotype of being more radical. Our opinion is seen as not as important since it's very drastic as well as loud. We're just now discovering all of this. Our brains couldn't even comprehend abstract thoughts until nine or ten years ago. Everything we know is based on our morals and morals alone. As most of you have become aware, Senator Bernie Sanders has declared himself to be in the running for the 2020 election. Until 2015, I didn't pay much attention to politics. I didn't need to- I was too young to remember a country led by George Bush and was still in diapers during Bill Clinton's last two years in office. All I know is Obama and I was comfortable in that. During the 2016 election, I started paying attention, because I had to. The country could change suddenly, as suddenly as what I saw in my own little world. Facebook and various forms of social media split. Maybe it was always like that, I just didn't care enough to notice. All I see now are posts complaining about Liberals or Democrats and posts complaining about Republicans or Conservatives. When Bernie first ran in competition with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I was a fan of Bernie. He appealed to the younger generation, which ultimately wasn't the right move being that the younger generation wasn't able to vote. His morals were on the right track, and truthfully, they still are. He advocates for the LGBT+ community, he notices the discrimination of race and gender and even though he is a member of the 1%, he realizes that that is the majority. Not to mention, first Jewish president after a long line of Christians? Despite his age, he seemed new.

I think what adults- the ones who raised the new adults- don't fully realize is that we aren't necessarily fighting political powers. I don't know how to pay taxes, my parents own the car I drive and provide the house and food I live by. I do know that my friends are harassed based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. I know that my friends are looked at funny when they speak a single sentence that is not in english. How my friend came to realize that at most times she was the only black person in the room. I feel uncomfortable walking alone at night and I feel uncomfortable during large school gatherings after what happened on Valentines Day, 2018. This is what I know and this is what I experience and would desire to change about not only our country, but our world. The problem is, how are these struggles related to politics? These are people's morals. The government shouldn't put a law stating not to act in hateful ways, people shouldn't be behaving in that sort of way. There shouldn't be things telling people to treat men and women as equal because you should have been treating us as equals from the since the begining.

I don't think Bernie or Hillary should run for President again. I don't think Trump should be President right now because he isn't a role model to look up to. Bernie's ideologies are something to get behind, but a socialist country right after four years of Trump in power is unrealistic and would be culture shock. I don't really know what Trump has done to help the country in what should be a political viewpoint. I know that he relies on Twitter to call his running mates various names like kids on a playground. These things won't solve anything.

Reader, your Facebook posts making fun of snowflakes is not changing anyone's mind. Your Facebook post calling out big corporations for their misogyny isn't doing anything. What you post on social media has made a significant change for the better. This article in itself cannot change anything except possibly the few that choose to read this. Social media and strong, flat opinions have only separated you from each other and pushed the movement for conversations further and further away. Have you ever complained about someone liking the color pink because you liked the color yellow on social media before without questioning why they like that color so much? Is your pride really worth the arguments and disputes? I am not in any way a source to follow, I will only ever have my experiences and thoughts alone.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

George Washington, September 17, 1796