Politics

This year is the Presidential election for our country. This year is also the first year I am old enough to vote in it. When I was younger I remember that I could not have cared less about the elections. Even in 2008 when I was a senior in high school and we studied the election daily in my A.P. U.S. Government class I never put much thought into it. Not until recently had I even developed an interest in politics; a combination perhaps of living in Washington D.C., all summer, realizing the impact the next four years of my life will have on my future, or simply naturally maturing with age. The problem however, is that even though I can vote with my Washington state absentee ballot, I am not sure who I will vote for. The hardest and easiest part about the American political system is that it is essentially a two-party one. Though it can simply things, I definitely thing it over-simplifies them. I find it hard to identify with one or the other enough to cast my vote for one away and give it to the other. I think it would be more practical if there were other viable parties involved in elections but America - its media, its citizens, and its lifestyles - is so set in its ways that it will take a very long time for some type of political revolution to happen. Until then I'll have to sort my though the two-partied mess to find a place for my vote.