"The Race for the White House"

With the 2016 election approaching soon, the question of voting comes up. Henry David Thoreau states "All voting is a sort of gaming... a playing with right and wrong". This statement couldn't be any more accurate for this election; on one hand we have a business man refusing to release his tax returns and on the other hand we a have a former Secretary of State who put the country in danger using a private email server. Whether the next four years are going to be lead by Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump seems to be all up "to the mercy of chance".


Watching the first Presidential Debate I was quite shocked as the to the current state of our Nation. Are people not concerned with this Nation's future? Voter turnout was 55% in the 2012 election. How do people expect their voice to be heard in the government if they aren't even expressing their right to vote. Thinking about it, about a half of the people in this country are choosing the fate for everybody else.

If people get so angered about injustices in our lives, gun violence, or the US's foreign policy, then why don't they go out and try to make a change by voting. Thoreau states "some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union ... why do they not dissolve it themselves". President Obama also made a similar point during his speech at the Democratic National Convention: "Don't 'Boo', Vote".

This election is already a historic one as we have a female candidate representing one of the two major parties. The issue of equality for blacks seems to be as important as ever. And the threat of foreign nations seems to be intensifying by the day.  With all these major issues it seems crazy that in the end the man or women leading us through this roller coaster might be decided by "chance".