@Nichodemus I was in the camp that Trump was always going over the top and pandering to get more votes, especially of the far right uneducated white population. Little known fact was that Trump used to be a Democrat pre 90's and honestly he's not as stupid as he looks (even though during the debates he was definitely getting creamed, though Hillary allegedly having the questions in advance might have helped).
Everybody needs to honestly chill. Trump is not a dictator and he's CERTAINLY not the next Hitler. You forget that Germany succumbed to Hitler's rule because their economy was nonexistent and people were sad. I don't think the country is in such bad shape yet and I definitely don't think that he's as charismatic as Hitler. I'm pretty certain it's just going to be a quite stale next 4 years.
That being said, I'd like to have seen my boy Bernie be in the last legs of the race, but unfortunately the DNC just completely shut him out because it was 'Hillary's turn' like that was supposed to mean anything?? Hillary's policies sound quite stale and I really hope the Republicans don't try 'trickle down economics' like they have for years because that just doesn't work even if it sounds nice on paper. Like, "Make the rich richer so they create more jobs so people get money!" really doesn't work in the kind of society we have.
On another note, I think the voting system we have today is definitely outdated and inefficient. Not only is the electoral college totally unnecessary with the ability to be able to count votes through the use of computers, but I hear complaints that say we should have more parties than the two party dominance we have in the government, but many don't understand exactly why it's been relegated to two parties.
CGP Grey has an excellent video on this subject that I think you all should check out, and it's only 6 minutes long! (Darn this dangfangled new AG commenting system)
However, if you've no time even for that then
TL;DW The winner takes all type of voting system we have makes it so that people consider voting for 'third parties' a wasted vote even if they agree more with the third party than one of the dominant party's politics, and they'd rather support a candidate of one of the two because at least that party isn't as bad as the other. How to fix the problem? We have to have everybody's vote actually count! A simple fix would be that you'd rank your candidates when you vote. Here's an example;
There are 6 Candidates: A, B, C, D, E, and F. Assuming everybody votes, let's say A has 33% of all votes, B has 30% of all votes, C has 15% of all votes, D has 10% of all votes, E has 9% of all votes and F has a measly 3%.
In our modern US election system, normally A would win, right? But this is despite the fact that only 1/3 of the population actually agrees with A and now we have a government that caters to that 1/3, leaving a approximately 2/3 unsatisfied and more likely to vote for the bigger candidate that can actually win and that they agree more with politically, like A or B. They wouldn't even think about C, much less the other candidates as they all received half or less than even what A or B got.
However, if we ranked our votes, what would happen is as F candidate is effectively last, all of his votes would be considered null and all of the voters from F would go to their choice of second candidate, which let's say they all voted unanimously for E. Combined, he now has 12% of the vote, beating even D. D's candidate drops out because he is the next last candidate and let's say they also happen to have voted unanimously for E, giving candidate E an astonishing 22% of the vote, beating even C in votes. As C is the next new last, they also drop out. Normally, C voters would vote for D voters, but since he dropped out their votes go to the next candidate that they at least prefer over the rest, which happens to be E once more.
This puts Candidate E, a candidate that had 9% votes at first, a stunning 37% of the vote, right on par and even above the other two dominating parties of A and B. B Candidate loses and B voters decide that above all, they'd rather have Candidate E than A as their ruling government, so guess who their votes go to?
This effectively gives even third parties a huge chance to win if they can garner enough support, and hey, if the third party doesn't win, your vote still effectively matters. You get to vote for the party you full believe in. There are no wasted votes. This is a full democracy.
TL;DR Trump is fine, Bernie is bae, voting system reform pls.
Thanks for reading, now back to hibernation I go.
