This year’s election has its two primary candidates focusing on issues that do not concern the nation in a positive manner. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have both been focusing their speeches and concerns on bashing each other immaturely. They have been putting issues that could be put aside on the top of their agendas instead of addressing more important ones.
They both need to realize that a dog riding on top of a car is not an election issue, but that lacks of jobs are. High school behavior of a candidate isn’t an election issue, but impending violence and war are. Gay marriage shouldn’t be an important issue - it shouldn’t even be considered since marriage should be a personal choice with no government interference, but freedom of the Internet should be something on the agenda list.
What’s driving these two candidates into focusing on issues that shouldn’t be on the priority list could partially be blamed on the media. The media is provoking the candidates to focus on issues that don’t really push our economy and society forward. The media tends to enjoy broadcasting the issues that cause more separation in our society and downfall in our economy. Major news outlets tend to broadcast a lot of the candidates’ past and present social lives rather than the important issues each candidate is addressing.
Social lives and religion shouldn’t be the main concern when choosing a candidate, because neither has to do with running the country. What is most dementing about this election is that the two candidates are being differentiated by the color of their skin. The election doesn’t feel like an election between a Republican and a Democrat, but between a white man and a black man. The last thing that this election needs is to be influenced by the race of the candidate. It should be about politics and choosing who we think can help push our country onto a positive road.
The way this election is going forward doesn’t shine a light down the tunnel for our country. These candidates really need to get their acts together if they want to make change in this country. They need to stop focusing on issues that just cause more problems. They need to change their main concerns to ones that will actually bring this country to the top of its game.