With another Presidential race wrapped up, there are riots, confusion and even petitioning for the Electoral College to cast their votes in favor of Hilary Clinton on Dec. 19. It’s crazy to think that with so much power, almost half of the voting-eligible population (VEP) doesn’t vote. With a landmark number of voters registered, we only have approximately 57.9% of the VEP exercising their right to cast a vote. CNN reported on Nov. 12, 2016, “Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades”.
No wonder it seems like half the country is always upset with the election. It’s because half the country doesn’t vote.
I’ll get the bullsh*t out of the way first. If you didn’t vote, you didn’t voice your opinion. If you are complaining now, by all means go ahead, but zero people are actually going to care about what you have to say.
If you did vote and you are complaining now, still zero people are actually going to care about what you have to say because that’s how we are as a country and after Election Day there is a clear winner and loser.
Now that that is out of the way, we, as a country, need to get over ourselves and move forward.
I’ll let it be known that I voted for Clinton. Her platform and stance on issues resonated within me more than anything Trump had promised. Additionally, I did not enjoy Trump’s demeanor as a political candidate. Conversely, I think Trump strategized very well in the race and Clinton had put herself in between a rock and a hard place in terms of the email scandal.
Regardless of what I think or how I voted, I am neither a Clinton supporter or a Trump supporter.
I am a President supporter.
Even though I had to cast my vote, I was willing to accept the results. I understand that we need a leader. And at the end of the whole ordeal, we WILL have a leader for this great nation.
As a citizen of the United States of America, I feel a moral obligation to follow my elected leader. The President of the United States is a monumental job and I believe whoever we vote into office will do the best to their abilities to fulfill the responsibility that comes with the job.
As a human being, I understand how people can get upset with the results of the election, but also I feel disappointed that we get so caught up with the results. As a country, it’s scary to think that so much strife can come over an election.
If the country is so passionate and broken up over the results of the election, why didn’t the VEP try harder before Election Day? Take a friend/relative/son/daughter to the poll. Petition to make Election Day a national holiday so people have the day off to exercise one of the most important constitutional rights we have as American citizens. Might as well lump in National Voter Registration Day in there, too, just to make sure everybody who is of age is registered.
But what about now? After Election Day? It isn’t too late for change. As it turns out, a lot of investigation has been done to find some sort of loophole or alternative to the results of Election Day. Weirdly enough, the results from Election Day aren’t definitive. Donald Trump doesn’t get to move to Pennsylvania Avenue quite yet and President Obama is still Commander-in-Chief until Jan. 20, 2017.
There is a period in time in which the final months of presidency that President Obama gets to hang out in the Oval Office. During this period, citizens have the one final chance to influence those who cast the votes of the Electoral College. With a little investigating and intuition, it has been massively circulated that those who cast the votes for the Electoral College are not obligated by any Constitutional provision or Federal law “to vote according to the results of the popular vote of their states”. Conversely, there are some states that will penalize those who do vote accordingly.
It’s interesting to see how much effort people put into the election after Election Day.
Regardless of what has happened, I look forward to what has yet to come. If the will of the American people can persevere as it does today, we can look forward to making the best of the situation and we can move into the future proudly and together as one nation.
“My friends, let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary. Let us not lose heart. For there are more seasons to come and there is more work to do.” — HRC
