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Why I Refuse to Vote

2016 Presidential Election

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Why I Refuse to Vote
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Me, being a freshman in college, I have never in my entire life seen so many people more concerned with politics. In my personal opinion, I could humbly care less. It's 2016, and we are living in the age of information, everyone that has a phone also has a computer. Personally I guess you could consider me a “conspiracy theorists”, but you would have to know the origin of the term, and also be aware that I could honestly care less. The term “conspiracy theorists” was created after the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which is what people were called when they did not believe the US government's official story.

I personally refuse to vote because, casting a simple ballet for a candidate does not, nor has it ever created change. People must understand that voting was never for the average citizen, when the US was first established, only rich white men that owned land were able to vote. Now in the modern-day US everyone that has registered to vote is able to vote, but does their vote count? Let's take into consideration that the electoral college exists, fortune 500 companies donate to politicians, lobbying is legal, and secret societies dominate the political system in the US, and also the fact that 43, out of 44 US presidents are decedents of the English royal family.

The electoral college is the system that chooses the US presidents. Every state has their own amount of electoral votes that is determined by their 2 senators plus however many representatives they have in Congress, for an example, North Carolina has 15 electoral votes, 2 from their 2 senators and 13 from their representatives. In order to win the presidency, a candidate would have to have 270 electoral votes. Ideally, the elected congressional officials would cast its state's electoral votes to whomever won the majority of the populist vote, but only in a perfect world. Sadly, our world is far from perfect, and that your state's congressional officials can decide what candidate gets the votes, not the population, which means that more than likely the electoral votes go towards whichever Presidential nominee shares the same party as those congressional members.

As citizens of the US, we should pay attention to the fact that our political system is severely tainted with lobbying and corporations funding politicians’ political campaigns. No matter what a politician promises during their campaign, they always change their agenda in favor of corporations and billionaires, or wherever the money comes from. In the beginning of Obama’s first presidential campaign, he stated that was against GMOs, genetically modified organisms. Since his presidency, he has not only appointed the former VP of Monsanto, the world's leading producer of GMOs, to the head of the FDA, but has also signed H.R. 933, which included the Monsanto Protection Act. The Monsanto Protection Act forbids the federal government from being able to stop the selling and planting of GMO seeds even if there are health risks. Makes you wonder how many politicians are in bed with corporate leaders.

Many US presidents are and were members of secret societies, including, but not limited to: Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove, Bilderberg Group, Freemasons, the Committee of 300, and Knight’s Templar. Secret societies have a lot more influence in politics than the public would like to believe, for an example the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Grove, and the Committee of 300 are all meetings of high-ranking international political figures where it's illegal for the press to be anywhere near the premises of such meetings. In these meetings contain CEOs of multiple corporations and political figures.

Another reason I don't trust voting is that 43 out of 44 US presidents are related, the only one that shares no relation is the 8th president, President Martin Van Buren. From US President George Washington to President Barack Obama,all presidents share a common ancestor, King John Lackland of England. Even in the 2016 presidential election the democratic and republican nominations are related. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are 19th cousins, according to the Washington Times. In my humble opinion, I believe that the candidate with the purer blood becomes the winner.

I don't believe in voting, because the winner is already determined, Hillary Clinton. The public is distracted by Trump, because he is a joke. Trump’s sole purpose is to seem so hateful, that the majority would vote for Hillary, and make it seem as if she is the US’ saving grace, but unfortunately she is just as evil as the ones before her.
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