Mike_M

I believe that I have little to no impact in democracy. I am simply a high school student along with thousands others. I can not comprehend or understand the full impact I am capable of having on my government.

I have abided by and will continue to follow my country’s system of democracy for as long as I live in America. My system of government has flaws and is corrupt and I believe that this will always be the case. “We the people” have found ways around the so perfectly set up system which allow people with power to stay in power. Accountability is absent or taken lightly in several parts of my democratic society which leads to multiple accounts of poor decision making. True, no one is perfect and people are going to "mess up" but mabey if all people were honestly informed about each and every person they voted for there would be less confusion. Who knows how much behind the scenes schemes take place in which one man does something to help out another guys who helps someone else all along the way each person doing something that may or may not be illegal but is most likely something that the general public would not agree with. In many ways it no longer matters who is the best president who will represent the people with all his/her power, but rather the president who is willing to spend the most money and go on the most campaign’s and smile at people who gets elected. In 1960 the first televised election occurred in which Kennedy and Nixon were the two canidates. Kennedy won the election but the two were almost even before the televised event. Nixon came to the event refusing to wear makeup while Kennedy had just finished campaigning in California and was looking more professional. After the four televised debates Kennedy pulled ahead and won the election with ease.