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What It's Like Being Raised By Parents Who Don't Care For Politics

The USA: The land of the Republicans and the home of the Democrats.

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What It's Like Being Raised By Parents Who Don't Care For Politics
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As the American two-party system becomes more divided, and as this presidential election becomes more absurd, I have never been more grateful for my parents never really caring about politics too much.

Yes, they care about politics, but — unlike other people of this fine, argumentative nation of ours — they have never tried to push their own political agenda down my throat. They allowed me to create and develop my own political views, and I never realized until now how important that was for my own personal identity.

As politics grow more and more corrupt, as opinions become more and more stubborn and as more and more people fail to listen to and entertain other arguments and possibilities, our country ('tis of thee), its political system and its people become increasingly fixed and driven to uphold this two-party system that one of our founding fathers — if not the founding father (that's right. George Washington) — warned us against creating and continuing.

With Trump and Clinton as the presidential nominees for the two major political parties, Republicans and Democrats have never been so fierce and determined to defend themselves and to offend the other. Our dukes are stuck in the upright position as we are all too afraid to let our guards down and to actually listen to what the other party's members have to say.

Like the territorial distinctions between tables in a high school lunch room, the separation between the Republican and Democratic parties doesn't benefit anyone. It only provides the American people with yet another label to turn into an insult.

Considering the notorious stupidity and balderdash of the 2016 presidential election, perhaps this is the perfect time for a political revolution to bring an end to this two-party system. As American politics are being questioned and reinvented by people like Lin-Manuel Miranda with the wild success of "Hamilton" and Bernie Sanders bringing attention to the influence of big banks and corporations on political agenda, there is no time like the present to rid our political system of this dreadful two-party system.

The danger of reinforcing this system goes beyond mere labels and conventions. It influences the next generation as some parents, teachers, and other officials feel the need and see it as their responsibility to label and separate the youth of the U.S. before their young minds have enough time to develop their own views and ideals.

Why can't we just all get together and have one big party instead of continuing this nonsensical charade? Why can't we all just party together?

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