As we get closer and closer to the election, and the candidates go farther and farther off the rails - I've come to a logical conclusion. They're just too crazy to win. I think this is the first election in history when I haven't wanted a single candidate to win. Most of them are crazy and the others that aren't completely crazy, I've decided I'm just not a fan of due to some issues with their previous work.
Take Trump for instance, he's been off the wall, cuckoo for cocoa puffs this entire election. But this week alone, he swore he didn't see his campaign manager grab a female reporter - which is clearly caught on tape - , hire that campaign manager a lawyer that was arrested himself a few years ago for biting a stripper, and lastly he stated that some sort of punishment is in order for women that have an abortion. And that's just in the last 48 hours. And yet, he's still running, still making money and still has votes. What is wrong with America?! I pick on Trump a lot, but Cruz is almost as bad. He's just not as big a blow-hard as Trump is.
With all these feelings, I'm ready to just jump ship, not vote and head to Canada. The issue with that is, if I don't vote, then apparently I'm not allowed to complain about who wins. Also, I'd never forgive myself if Donald Trump managed to win by just a few votes and my vote could have tipped the scale in someone else's direction. It's a running fear I have - a fear that has no basis in political system reality but a fear nonetheless.
Secretly, I have this hope that in about a week, the lovely Joe Biden and the rational Mitt Romney (who would have thought 4 years ago, I would have been wishing for a Mitt Romney race?) are going to come out of their self-imposed non-race, and say: "Just Kidding! We're actually running!" Then the political establishment of the United States will go back to being, at least mostly, civilized. And we'll have a chance of electing a serious President who won't embarrass the US in front of world leaders or provoke a war over some ridiculous macho talk. A girl can hope, right?
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