Being Noah Tesfaye #20: Why Can’t I Pick a Party, and Should I?

To answer the question shortly, I have no idea. I’m a minor and I can’t vote, but every single time I discuss politics, I can’t make my mind up on what I support and I honestly do not know why. For every single time I try to align myself with liberal ideology, I am bothered by some of its rhetoric, and every time I find something that I can agree with on a more conservative level, I hear something foul that I could never support. So what the hell do I take into consideration when I think about politics?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve grown up fascinated with politics and how our country works. When Obama was elected president, I remembered thinking so vividly that this guy’s African too and he’s just doing awesome things. Maturing in the Obama era, I got used to politics that did not appear to be as super chaotic, even though I now realize it was in it’s own way. I mean, sure, there were people who thought he wasn’t born in the country, or the fact that they thought because he smoked weed as a younger person, he was unqualified to be president, but the disputes were based on the merit of the policy he created, as it should be.

Being a political fanatic when this past election occurred, I did not know how to react to the presidential election. It didn’t feel right that I could support someone or believe in…