This year, 2016, is the first year I get to vote in the presidential election. But, I'm already scared and the voting hasn't even started.
This is the worst election I have witnessed in my lifetime, even though I've only been alive for 18 years.
But, how exciting!! It is the first time my class of mine will be able to vote for the upcoming presidential election. We have been waiting for this oppurtunity for years and years. Being able to vote is our way of experiencing the first "adult thing" besides buying a lottery ticket or signing for our own tattoo. This experience has some sort of meaning. But this year, the experience is more of a "please, I'd rather not participate" sort of thing.
I really wish being able to express your thoughts on politics was how it used to be years back. Now, if you even express one thought, there's a chance someone could possible attack you for your own opinion. I've always had a thing for watching the debates and talking in class about the election, but now that the election is finally here, I think it's safer for us to be quiet.
My generation may have no idea what were talking about when we speak of politics, but at one time, neither did the generations ahead of us. It is not our problem that we aren't as involved, it's just that we have not been here as long as everyone else to witness the other great (or terrible) elections in the past to be educated on. I would say sorry, but there is no reason for me to be sorry. I have a say now, and I wish I could express it.
I haven't met many people that don't get heated when you bring the election up, which is saddening. Fighting over the issues that we have no control over, the candidates are the ones with the control now, is beyond me. I am 18, but I have more common sense than you think.
Even starting a political conversation with someone a few years older than I am, or a generation above me, is like sending myself down a rat hole. I forgot, elders are ALWAYS right. But I didn't know you could be CORRECT when speaking your own opinion.
In my years of school, aka high school, I have learned that everyone has an opinion. There is no right answer on an opinion based test, right? So how can someone speaking to me about their opinions over politics think that they are the CORRECT one. See what I mean? Politics is full of double standards. The double standards are making our generation now want to put down our vote. What is even worse than voting for someone that shouldn't be in office, is not voting at all. You cannot get an accurate estimate of who the majority would rather have in office if most of the voting population refuses to vote.
I won't throw my opinion out there, because all that does is start controversy, but I want to make it clear that this election is the worst election to be our FIRST election. It sucks that there is not a person that stands out to be 100% better than the other candidate. I have my opinions, but I'd rather keep them to myself because this is not an election anymore, its the start of a political war. I do not want to be apart of that political war.
I am riding on the battleship, in this political war, that is getting shot down every chance we feel afloat. It is not fair that we are drowning in the expectations to know every little detail of what is right and wrong. MY opinion is not right, nor is it wrong, that's why it is called my own opinion. If you do not like my opinion, then you do not have to. That the BEAUTIFUL thing about opinions, nobody has to like yours and you don't have to agree with anybody else.
I am 18, I was excited to vote, but America just ruined it for us this year. I hate to see what happens once this election is over, so far I don't like what I see and neither does 80% of the population.
