The Magic Conch Shell

Let's talk election time! Oh stop your groaning I'm not going to ask 'who's stupider, Donald Trump or Patrick Star?' I'm gonna talk about flaws in elections as a whole. First I will turn to, arguably, our most well known founding father and greatest president ever: George Washington. Why the greatest president ever? Because he had no idea How anything was supposed to be done! He was the first president of a brand new country. That's like being the first person to start a club, you have no idea what you're supposed to do. Just an idea of how you want it to turn out and let's not forget the fact that it costs BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND HAS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN IT. So he is the best president because he litterally helped build the American government. Feel free to Ooo and Ahh at how amazing our founding fathers were because man do they deserve it!

I'm going to focus on one of his more poignant quotes:

“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.”

Was that too long winded for you? Me too. To simplify our fluent quote: Political parties are popular, but they also allow people with selfish intent to take advantage of our parties and get our vote. Just because you're a Republican you'll vote for a Republican. It's what we call an either-or fallacy. You are either a Democrat or a Republican but you can't be in the middle. In his finale inauguration President George Washington told us not to divide into political parties. A hundred years later what did we do? Divide ourselves. The problems with this are that we then judge our fellow Americans by their political parties instead of by who they are as a person.

The other problem I see with our voting practise is how candidates run. It may surprise some of you to know that during the first several elections the candidate didn't nominate themselves. Their colleagues did. This helped keep people for running out of personal gain. Granted it didn't work all that well but it was an attempt. The other things their friends did for their candidates is to campaign for them. They didn't do it for themselves and it was a far more modest event. Over time the voting system has become more of a competition than it should be, with candidates insulting other candidates rather than honestly telling us how they will help the people. It's become more of a fight for power than a vote on who is most suitable to lead our country.

I don't really have a good way to end this out so I'm just gonna finish with my new ending thing: Question of the blog! This is the part of the blog where you can COMMENT so I don't have to go to bed thinking nobody reads my blogs. *sobs quietly in the corner* My blogs aren't just a grade I get in class. I want this to be a conversation where I reply to your comments. I can't have a conversation if there's no feedback. <3
Question of the blog: What are your opinions on our political system?

TTFN! That's tata for now!