The Best Man for the Job- Election Rant #1

With the upcoming election vastly approaching, I figured I would take this time to do my annual rant on politics. Now maybe this is just the opinion of an uninformed 18 year-old who thinks she knows more than she does, so take it for what it’s worth.

              Politicians disgust me. They lie, cheat, and go behind each other’s backs and possess all of the lovely qualities that the Plastics did in Mean Girls. Now, I know that they weren’t always like this. I’m sure that when Barack Obama and Mitt Romney first started out, they were great people, but in this day in age, there is no room for good people in politics. In order to make it, you have to have been corrupted somewhere along the way. But the problem with this is that the two parties are so ignorant of each other that there is no room for compromise. People are either republican or democrat and very few of the people we have in office are willing to vote in favor of the opposite side.

           Have you ever wondered what might happen if the two parties used their ideas and worked together to solve our problems. It’s no secret that our country is in a scary position right now, and there is no one person that can fix that. It’s going to take our entire system, and our entire country to repair the economy. Some people are going to have to give things up, some will have to work a little harder, some will have to spend more money where others will have to spend less. I’m not saying I have the answers to fix all of the country’s problems, because I don’t. But I do know one thing and that is that we are never going to get better until the two sides can learn to compromise. We are all on one team.

So if this is the case, then how do we choose a candidate? Do we base our decision on the promises they make in their speeches yet never keep? Do we base it on the type of person their campaign managers paint them to be? I haven’t quite made up mind yet who I will be voting for this November but I do know one thing; I will not vote for someone simply just because of the party they are representing, I will vote for the person that seems most likely to consider every possible solution there is to get our country out of this mess.