The Lesser of Two Evils

The Lesser of Two Evils

October 27th, 2016 by Eric Kennedy

Americas most valuable trait is its democracy, our ability to vote for our commander in chief is one of the many beneficial things that are available to us in this nation. But sometimes, even with this ability to chose who we want as leader of our country's armed forces, people of this great nation find themselves in a situation that they wish their country wasn't in.

This years presidential election for some people of America has been that situation. The two major candidates in this race for the presidency is Donald Trump, a billionaire business man who is running for the Republican Party and Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, running for the Democratic Party. Both parties have severely different ideas about the running of America and are seen as rivals during these presidential races but this years' candidates have taken the feud to a whole other level. Both Trump and Clinton have made rather dramatic accusations against each other, plus snide comments and insults seen and heard during rallies and debates. These remarks about each other can be even seen as highly unprofessional in the eyes of some people. However, both candidates do have somewhat good ideas and a few traits that could be seen as likable to voters. Everyone has different morals, values, and ways of thinking that help them decide what to believe in, which is simple human nature. However, let it not go unsaid that although both Clinton and Trump have ideas that could change how our nation operates for the better, they argue and make both passive aggressive and direct insults over topics like children. The final debate that took place on October 19th started off smoothly with actual conversation about topics like abortion and terrorist groups like the Islamic state also known as ISIL or ISIS.

But soon after in later topics the debate turned into an argument. Trump, calling Clinton a "nasty woman", a "liar", and saying that she should be in jail because of classified emails that were deleted from Clinton's personal email, which trump argued that they were deleted illegally. Clinton came back by calling Trump a "man with no respect for women", and brought up a tape recording where trump was partaking in "locker room talk" with another person about a sexual relation with women. Clinton also brought up multiple sexual harassment claims that have been made by serval women against trump. Another topic that was brought up numerous times that at first Trump was hesitant and unwilling to answer was, if he would accept the results of the election no matter what way it went, his response to this question was " I will look at it when the time comes" and "I'll leave you in suspense". Now it is customary to admit to the people's choice and allow the mantle of Commander in Chief to be passed to the victor of the presidential race. While it is not abnormal to have a recount of the ballot, it would be abnormal to deny the results completely if loss was obvious. But due to recent claims that the election is "rigged" in Clintons favor one can almost guarantee that Trump will not accept the results if he does lose and he seems to imply that he will not go down without a fight.

These details go to show that this presidential election could be a conundrum for some of those still undecided voters but do remember that to solve the problems and threats by those who wish to harm our country and make something close to world peace a reality, then we must first solve the problems and make the right decisions from within our own country.

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