Commentary on Colleague's Blog

When reading Hannah McKenzie's Political Parties blog, I was able to see the connections she made and agreed fully with them. I made a point in my commentary on the U.S. Government about the gridlock Congress has found themselves in due to political party division and what kind of effect Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would have on fixing this problem. However, McKenzie makes a great point by starting with George’s Washington warnings against political parties and how they allow people to gather with others who share similar ideals, morals, and values. Yet, McKenzie also makes a great point that political parties have the potential to destroy our country. Something which seems to already be occurring with Congress’s inability to make political decisions due to party devotions and fixed votes. How is this something that can be fixed? The majority of Americans don’t associate themselves with a specific party because Republicans and Democrats are on opposite sides of the spectrum, yet there are many that fall on spectrum somewhere on the middle either leaning left or right. It is important for our country to realize that if we truly want the people to have the power to elect, then there has to be more options. There has to be more education for the lower class. There has to be more encouragement towards the younger generations to vote as that our younger generation votes less than the older generations. This is a problem for the future of our country, it makes it increasingly more difficult to make modern changes when the older generation makes the decisions (when it comes to voting). Of that older generation, they don’t want change as much as the younger generation does. The older generation finds comfort in falling into the liberal or conservative categories or the Democrat or Republican parties. While our generation do not agree with the idea of a binary party system (for the most part). I think it’s important that when this topic is brought up, that all factors be introduced and all possibilities be considered.