carvenstones:

I think the media, intentionally or not, has done a frighteningly good job of convincing young voters that presidential elections are about the candidates themselves, as people, and they’re really, really not.

listen. people are impermenant. in 15, 20, 30 years, they’re going to die. the longest either of them could be president is 8 years, which is just. nothing, really. but you know what lasts a lot longer than the actual physical person who’s president? their POLICY.

i’t has been 100 years since tr sat in the Oval Office, and his foreign policy STILL influences ours. the media wants you to think that you’re voting in a person, like a popularity contest, but what you’re really doing is voting in POLICY, that will literally shape America for DECADES

so. don’t be a jerk and abstain from voting, is what I’m saying