“Oh my God?! Did you hear, Romney dropped out of the race!? Now it’s just between McCain, Clinton, and Obama!! OMG, I wonder who is going to win?!”

Please, do me a favor. If this is a line that has or ever will be uttered from your mouth, please… Stop talking. At least until the election is over. It will do all of us so much good.

Before I began this pseudo-rant, I want to make a one thing clear. I do not mean to offend anyone who is in love with politics, I only wish to display my own insidious feelings towards the process. With that being said, let the complaining begin.

Super Tuesday. I attended the party in GFC, mostly out of utter boredom and sheer desperation to get away from the piles of homework that lined my desk. I figured that it might not be so bad, especially considering the free pizza and beverages that were accessible as I strolled in the door. And in truth, it was alright for a while. It provided a few good laughs. The countdowns as each election closed, beginning at twenty minutes, then quickly plummeting down to five seconds, and finally the fireworks that lit across the screen as each poll closed. The serious and somber looking telecasters that lined the studio, each one attempting to look important and useful as the camera dragged over them. The inventive touch screens that allowed the telecasters to roll their fingers over each state and point out exactly how much value it was to each candidate. But after a while, the laughs started to fade as one important fact became clear in my mind:

These people were being serious.

It seemed unfathomable that any one person could care so much about something so far away in the distance. But for all the people on the TV, all the people in the room with me, and thousands of others all across America, this comical event was a real and pressing issue. And it sickened me.

Seriously. The election is a grand total of about ten months away. There is no need to be so hyped up about it at this time. Wait until, say… maybe summer? Or even early fall. But nothing should be covered in such depth at such a far away moment. People do not even worship events like the Super Bowl, which gets nearly as many viewers as presidential voters, in that far advance. At least wait for the candidates to be decided.

Perhaps I’m so sour about this absurd obsession merely because of my disgust at the political system itself. To me, it does not make sense to put so much care and devotion into something so twisted and corrupt. For example, imagine your favorite candidate at this point. Get the image of their shining face, their steadfast beliefs, and their uplifting promises. Now, completely crush that image into smoldering dust. The leader you were just imagining running our country in a grand and spectacular epitome is in fact an insincere manipulator who uses all the techniques of legerdemain to outwit his or her opponents. How do you think they got as far as to be the leading runner in their party’s primary? By pillaging and burning their way to the top, of course!

It causes melancholy to brood in my soul that we would choose someone of this sort to be the President of our once noble country. Yet it has now become tradition, a value embodied by the false hope our country signifies. Instead of selecting someone who is truthful and intelligent, we choose whoever can lie the best.

This is why politics fails. And this is why politics always fails. We will never, at this point, be able to ever overcome the system we have vicariously conjured. We will always be ruled by a hypocrite. This is why I cannot bring myself to honestly lift a brain cell to ponder the tides of the upcoming election. There is no point. This is the way of our society, a society ruled and conquered by such emblems as Hollywood and the media. We are going downhill, and there is not much that can stop it. And until we stop this rampant plummet, I will not allow myself to get caught in the havoc. What we need is change. Real change. Not the fake change that every candidate mysteriously seems to support without giving any background as to what it actually stands for. We need a whole new society. A brand new world, unequivocal and infallible.