My fellow Americans, it seems that we have made quite a great spectacle about this election. Everyone is freaking out that one of them will start WWIII or some other outrageous and absurd claim. It seems that not many people know the parameters within which the president works in. Many people are, for some reason, so extremely fixated on making the president a monarch, and that is simply not the case. We luckily live in a country where a single person does not decide everything that happens. In fact, there is much that cannot even happen by means of the president alone. While the president can issue executive orders to get things done, too many can lead to complications and even legal issues.
We hear a lot of the time that Obama was not able to do much during his time as president, and there is a lot of debate concerning what he has done for this country. Let us analyze why exactly there has not been as much change as was promised during the beginning of his campaign. The reason is that there is a great deal of interactions within the government that can eventually prohibit the actions that the president attempts to enact. For example, a president cannot just issue a bill on something and have it become the law of the land. That is simply not how the system here works. The bill must be proposed to Congress and go through an intricate process in which the bill is voted on and there are agreements and concessions that occur. The president cannot simply do what he pleases without any consequences. This is especially apparent if the president is a different party than that of the majority of Congress. This causes a gridlock in which nothing can truly be done because the two parties are completely clashing. This was the case with the late Obama administration. He was not able to pass anything due to a Republican Congress.
We must also not underestimate the power of the masses in democracy. After all, democracy literally means a system where the people rule. We get to vote on bills and amendments. We get to act as buffers for things that a corrupt president may be trying to pass, or for something that Congress is trying to pass that does not sit well with the general population.
Hopefully this brief explanation can reassure you that this election will not be the downfall of America. Everyone thought other presidents would destroy the country, but we are still alive and dominating the globe. We will continue to thrive under any president as long as the spirit of the American people remains intact and full of hardworking vigor.
