Politics Part 1

(this is the last article from last year)

The Republican Party is atrocious. Can the Republican Party even possibly be called a party at this point? If this was an actual party, it’d be the worst party ever! All that would happen at this “party” would be people yelling at each other.

Can the Republican Party stop worrying about gay people? They’re not vampires. They’re not going to suck your blood. Also, calling the discrimination of gay people “religious freedom” is an empty defense. Do you know what else used to be called religious freedom? The Ku Klux Klan (Thinkprogress.org). It used to be the bigots using the excuse and now it’s the homophobes.

With all of the Republicans yelling at each other this is starting to seem a lot less like a presidential race and more like Pro Wrestling. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pro Wrestling, but I don’t want to see it in the election for The President of the United States.

At first Trump entering the race was a harmless gag, a goof. I didn’t take him seriously, but now he’s leading in the polls. He is most likely going to be the Republican nominee. What started out as something for people to laugh at and material for late night talk show hosts, has now turned into a terrifying mess that has taken away some of the Republican Party’s credibility.

The other big issue that the Republicans have is abortion. Now I am not going to say much here on abortion because, as a man, my opinion shouldn’t mean anything in this situation. What I will say is going through an abortion is punishment enough, without any other repercussions.

The Democratic Party has its share of flaws, too. Hillary Clinton is really untrustworthy, and seems to care more about Wall Street than the middle class. Bernie Sanders, despite having ideas, is a pipe dream. Most of the ideas he has cannot be financially achieved without seriously cutting budgets, which is a bad idea because a lot of programs are under budgeted the way it is right now.

Sophomore Justin Hanes said “I don’t trust Hillary, because of Benghazi, and she shouldn’t be our president”

There needs to be a middle ground, a candidate who is in the middle, who has opinions on both sides of the aisle. What’s that called? A moderate? That’s not happening. The parties are going to keep getting more and more extreme, until the parties agree on nothing.

While there are candidates that I like more than others, nobody really stands out as someone who would be an amazing president.