What If?

"What If?" I love "what if" questions. With the political season a series of lies on both sides and fear producing on both sides, I asked myself a "What if" question. "What if, we changed the whole campaign process. What if, who ever wants to be President of the United States has be pay a 1 million to 5 million entry fee. The money from all the interested candidates would go into the US Treasury for help pay off the national debt. The interested candidates would write a essay explaining why they wanted to be President. Their party, their gender, their race, their identity would not be revealed. The citizens of the US would have three months to read the essays and vote for their favorite.

The accounting group that keeps the Oscars a secret, would be responsible for keeping the essay writers a secret. The essays could be printed in Spanish or other languages for those unable to read English. This seems to me to be as good a way to elect a President as we have now. I don't have a problem that maybe the best writer, or the candidate, who gets the best writer would win.

The person who wins the election could than choose their Vice-President as they do now.

When you look at our past Presidents, this essay political system seems to me to be as good a way as we do now. And we would not spend the ridiculous amount of money that we now spend.

What do you think?

Jana Ruth
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