You've got to be kidding me.
I expected the second Presidential debate to be the nail in the coffin for Donald Trump. Against all odds - and mostly due to the weaknesses of Hillary Clinton--he managed to come out of it looking better than he went in. That doesn't mean he was perfect, it just means that he didn't self-destruct. For him to remain in the running, that's all he needs. Against literally any other candidate, he would be losing in a landslide.
Against literally any other candidate, Hillary would be losing in a landslide.
No matter your political persuasion, from Democrat, Republican, libertarian or democratic socialist, you're probably sick of this by now. There's only so far schadenfreude can take me in this election cycle.
I don't think it makes sense at all to keep supporting either of these candidates any more. Unless you inexplicably like serious corruption, cronyism, and moral bankruptcy, you can't seriously think either of these candidates are a good choice. This election is a mess.
It's a mess because we got the two most ridiculous candidates possible. You know what? We deserve this.
We deserve this because the United States was founded as a republic and we forced it into a democracy. We forced a democracy and then didn't even partake in it. Less than a fifth of the country even voted in the primaries, but people seem to think that the two-party system is what we're stuck with. In the entirety of the country we got these two because we didn't do our job as citizens.
We can't do this any more.
We can't put up with this any more.
I'm a millennial. We're the 'online fake activist' generation--we post about saving the environment, or rant about police brutality, sexism, and racism (even though most of us, quite honestly, have no real experience with any of those things). Are you kidding me? We put megaphones to our mouths, shout, and then do nothing. We shout about policies we know nothing about.
Millennials, this is going to be ours someday. All of it. Every single person who's older than us is going to retire one day and it'll be our jobs, our society, and our government to run. We won't be able to joke about adulting any more because we'll have to buckle down and do it.
So what are we waiting for? Why do we, as a generation, seem to think that the best thing to do is shouting or protesting instead of voting, petitioning, and, heck, taking part in politics? I disagree with Bernie Sanders, but he did one very good thing: get millennials to care about politics.
I think that we're better than the stereotype. I think we can change things. It starts with being informed, getting involved, and voting. It ends with running for town councils, State Senate, or the Congress. We can do this.
Four years from now we won't let the candidates be two old, white neocons with no morals. We can't afford to. Four years from now we're going to stand up for the Republic that America should be and hold our leaders to a higher standard. The two-party system's quid pro quo is going to be torn apart by a generation that is going to actually get involved.
We can do that if we write our blogs and then vote, tweet then volunteer. Let's get this thing done.
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