In my colleague, Vivian's, blog, she discussed Donald Trump as President of the United States. This editorial was very well written and Vivian provided sufficient evidence to support her claim that Donald Trump should not be president. I agree that Donald Trump is not an excellent candidate for the next president, however I must pose the question: would Hillary Clinton be a better president?
As I discussed in one of my previous blogs, Hillary Clinton has been proven to be inconsistent with her values. For instance, in 2002, 2004, and 2010, she publicly stated that she did not support same sex marriage. However, in 2013, she stated that she did support gay marriage. Inconsistencies such as this lead me to believe that she would not be an ideal candidate, but like I said, neither would Trump. To answer my own question, I do not know if Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Donald Trump.
I find it sad that the United States is in a situation where many Americans (including myself) are struggling to support either presidential candidate. It also confuses me that no one seems to like the candidates because these two people became the presidential candidates by winning support from their parties. It seems like this presidential election is different than the others because many voters do not support either of the candidates, but as someone who has never voted before (due to age), I was curious as to if this is normal. After doing some research, I found an article where the author discussed the fact that many people did not support either of the candidates in the last two elections, therefore this situation has occurred before.
I believe participating in elections is very important in our country, but lacking interest in either of the candidates makes this difficult. The points Vivian discussed about Donald Trump are very true, but I have an extremely hard time supporting Hillary Clinton as well. To me, the question of this election is not, "Who will be the best president?" it is, "Who will do the least harm?" which is exceptionally disheartening.
