I have been excited to vote for most of my life. The idea that we have the power to determine who runs our country is amazing to me. I turned 18 last year, so now is my first chance to vote in a presidential election, but I have one problem, I have no idea who to vote for. I do not favor any of the candidates in any way; none of them float my boat. Personally, I am a registered independent, so I have no party biases, I just truly have no idea who I want to be the next President of the United States of America.
I am trying to keep myself informed about all the candidates, but I am finding it increasingly hard to be an informed voter when you don’t know what is true an what is not. Almost everything you see about very candidate is something negative put out by another candidate, and who knows what is true and what is not. It is honestly overwhelming at this point. I know who I do not want to be president (*cough* Donald Trump *cough*) but that does not really help when trying to deiced who I want to represent our great nation.
I try my best to keep up with all the debates and all the primary election results, but being a college student proves to require a lot more time than I had anticipated. Part of me wishes that someone totally impartial to any party or and candidate will sit down and make a list of what every candidate stands for, and what they don’t.
Some may be thinking, “Why don’t you just vote for whoever your parents are voting for?” And that is a very good question. I was raised to make my own decisions about important, and not so important, subjects. I want to make this very important decision on my own, inform myself, for my own opinion, and vote for whoever I see fit. I do not want to just copy my parents, I want to do this on my own. My parents never forced their political beliefs on me, and for that I will forever be grateful. They have allowed me to form my own opinion about important issues facing our nation and world today, without any bias.
With all that being said, I believe that the best candidate is fictional. Leslie Knope for President, am I right, or am I right?
