Why Should I Even Vote This Year?

A big question during election year, Why should I vote? This year more than ever, for me. I am able to vote this year, which is the first time I can, but I'm torn. I want to vote but I know my vote won't even count.
Why do I say this? because this year the polls show that it will most likely be Donald Trump versus Hilary Clinton. Why do these people matter? Well I believe Trump will get a majority of public view, but in the electoral college he will not win, republicans will not let him, which means whether I vote for Trump or whatever democrat is selected then the democrat will win.
This is all speculation and isn't at all fact, it's my opinion, and it all hinges on Trump getting the nomination.
This does though bring up a good point, why a majority of people don't vote. This is caused by people like me who know our votes don't count. Those people don't want to vote because they know their votes don't count.
The government needs to get this through their skulls, the fact that the electoral college makes voters upset, this has been happening for a while now and it has made the public have a bad taste in their mouth and a negative connotation of the word government.
These are just my thoughts on the election this year and my thoughts on voting in general. If you have any suggestions you can leave them in the form of a comment below.

Lose Lose Situation By SK

In the Blog The Donkey And The Elephant By SK. Brings up a good point, about the election this year, and how the republicans are acting. I really enjoyed reading your work, very detailed and had a lot of logistics in it. I agree with you, it would be wrong for the Republicans to not support Donald Trump, even with all his flaws. I believe that what ever the public votes, and the electors who support them, should get the nomination, however I believe that if Trump wins the primary, he will either be asked to step down, or told to step down, and if he does not do that then the electors will flip parties to have a democrat in office then to let Trump win. Which is why I think we, as a country, should do away with the electoral college. This along with many other reasons is why it makes the public feel betrayed.

Don't Be So Hard On Your Big Brother, He Tries

"Don't Be So Hard On Your Big Brother, He Tries" your mom might have said to you if you were getting mad at something your big brother did or did not do that you thought was not right. I believe this is how we are supposed to treat the Government, with the idea that "they try". Now don't get me wrong I enjoy living in America, but the Government doesn't always do what we (the people) want. Look at the years of 2000, 1824, 1876, and 1880, all of those are presidential election years in which the majority of the people (that's us) voted for the candidate who lost.

What happened there? How could a popular vote not get elected? I thought the people voted for the president? These are some common questions asked by many people when you talk about these elections. See my theory, which may sound a bit conspiracy, is that the founding fathers did not really want to put that much power in the hands of everyday people, they wanted a small hand of people they could control to be able to really vote. This is why we (the people) don't get to vote for the president, we vote for electors, who we hope will vote for the president we want. But as you can see that does not always happen.

I don't mean to sound like a pessimist, as I said before I do enjoy living in America. But like most people I want answers, I want to know why the government hasn't changed. I want to know why the people don't have a say, and why the electors get all the power. I want to know why "big brother" doesn't want to hang out with me.