Big Characters, Big joke: The reality of the presidential race

I  posted last week about a character I have never met in real life, and I'll be doing that again here.


Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump.

Possibly some of the biggest characters in America right now. 

Dirt about presidential candidates comes out of the woodwork, no matter the year or the candidates. This year is special, there is a special kind of craziness surrounding this year's race. On one hand, you have a former first lady whose husband was involved in a huge scandal during his presidency. She's been accused of deleting emails, being too sick to be president, and if elected she would be the first female POTUS. She knows all about the political world and for some people she represents everything that is wrong about the political system. On the other side is a man who has never held a political office, who has had multiple bankruptcies, has been accused of being racist, bigoted, and sexist, and is possibly the most controversial presidential candidate of all time.

Is this race a joke?
One of these people is going to run our country?

Memes of these two candidates have popped up all over the internet (basically our generations version of political cartoons) that point out the flaws and the stereotypes of these two candidates.

I won't pretend to know them, or have any clue as to what is going on inside their heads, but everyone in the USA is keeping tabs on these huge characters. Last week, the debate was impossible to ignore. Even if you didn't have the TV turned on, video clips, memes, and drinking games of the debate popped up on all types of social media. And yes, you heard me right, drinking games. This presidential race has become such a joke that many of my peers were playing drinking games to every predictable and ridiculous thing that was said during the debate.

Maybe having a few drinks made it easier to forget that one of these two people will soon be the leader of the US, or that there are people out there who whole-heartedly believe that their candidate is the ideal president.

There isn't much in the way of a conclusion for this post, just that I am frustrated with the election, the political system, and with America. Really? These guys? Of all the people in America, these are what you think the best options are? I know many other people who are also confused and frustrated by the election. The only thing we can do about it is vote. Get involved in local elections too! It's the only way to change things.

Well that's all for politics, I promise not to post about it again.