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omg both links are amazing.

now time for some political commentary that no one asked for.

I'm not American but I feel like the 2016 Presidental Election is incredibly important because it's the US' first president after their first Black President, and so I hope the new president will carry on the g8 stuff Obama has instilled in America. Also the squad of Supreme Court judges or whatever are super old and they're probably gonna die while the next president holds office, so the new squad will most likely be picked by the new president.

Plus, it's America. Aka the most powerful country in the world. So much of the 20th and 21th century has been created by America giving funds, throwing wars in other countries, making vast technological advances, etc. So any American presidency will affect the world.

Politics is very ??? for me because the only history I like is Classics (which is literally just Roman emperors stabbing each other in the backs and throwing tantrums) and I never took a single class of Business Studies in my life. But I do support social activism and I feel like Bernie Sander's ideas on deconstructing racial and class prejudices in the US fit with what I agree with. Plus, since the US is so influentical, maybe New Zealand would also benefit from a president like Bern!

I do disagree with A LOT of the things Hilary Clinton does, so I'm hoping that she doesn't win the Democrat primaries. She's not the kind of woman president I'll normally endorse but she would be way better than most other candidates. Obama made quite the strides with feminism and women rights while in power and with Clinton (and definitely Sanders too, may I add), those strides will be likely to be kept.

I definitely think Trump would be terrifying as a candidate. He's racist, he's sexist, he's rude. And so many Americans are rallying behind him because he's saying the things that a HUGE number of people are thinking. And he's making people think that being racist and sexist and classist is ok. I want to write him off as a joke, but he's rapidly becoming more of a serious candidate and that is really scary. I don't have much of an opinion on Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson feels like an anonamly to me because he's literally one of the greatest neurosurgeons in America and even the world, and yet he makes some really uninformed comments??? (who would seriously think that the pyramids are built by the biblical Joseph, c'mon.)

Sorry this is really long and I'm not even sure if my opinion matters since I'm a Kiwi. But from all the stats and facts and graphs I've seen on Reddit and Tumblr, and all the debates posted on YouTube, I feel I'm pretty certain where I stand.