The FBI has chosen not to charge Democratic frontrunner, presumptive nominee and possible future first female president of America, Hillary Clinton for her absolutely indisputable misuse of her servers and mishandling of classified information. While this decision certainly isn’t shocking it remains, as it always would’ve been, appalling. This is upsetting for many reasons as it tells us, the American people, that if you’re powerful enough you can overstep the laws set in place in our country. Is that really what we want from a first female president? Someone who is above the law and has gotten away with far too much already as it is?

This continues to fuel the anger many young millennials have towards the government because it shows the corruption and to many of us, validates our concerns about our government. Our FBI has failed us. Our DOJ has failed us. Our politicians have failed us. Because nobody this high of power has been in this position, yet there have been others who've used personal emails as Clinton had. While one could argue Colin Powell, the issue is that he didn't use a private server in his own home, as Clinton had. It has created the precedent that if you’re of a high enough status that you can get away with much, while any American not important enough to the government we have now would have been deemed a traitor and charged with treason, forced to seek political asylum in a place like…Russia. Wait a moment that sounds familiar: Hello Edward Snowden! The guy who many Americans that actually remember him and what he did would deem a hero for the documents he released in regards to the NSA spying (another governmental overstep and infringement on our rights). No, Edward Snowden is not in any massive correlation to Wikileaks or Julian Assange. Snowden is in Russia right now because if he stayed he’d be in a federal prison for life (there was announcement he wouldn’t be killed if he came back). Hillary has gotten away with much, gotten away with something most Americans wouldn’t have gotten away with nearly this lightly.

Though another precedent is set: this is no longer about the people in regards to the government we have, it’s about the people of high power in an oligarchical society. Either democracy has died in America or it’s at least on life-support. We should have a four-party system enacted right now. Hillary Clinton (Democrat), Donald Trump (Republican), Jill Stein (Green Party) and Gary Johnson (Libertarian). We’ve had a four-person race before (arguably a three-person race), which was between Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), Woodrow Wilson (Democrat), William Howard Taft (Republican) and Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) in 1912 (spoiler alert: Woodrow Wilson won). Our government is not for the people anymore, if we have others running that may actually have a chance to win we can have the government have to work for us. Political fervor could lead to this and I believe it can happen as early as 2020.

This decision by the FBI, along with all the oddities of this election (by “odd” I mean questionable), along with the hijacking of the Republican Party is a perfect storm brewing for an interesting 2020 election. That is if we keep our momentum going into 2020 as more of the generation turn of age to vote. Clinton’s emails weren’t the beginning, they aren’t the end: but they’re a means to what’ll become interesting American politics in the next few years.