Why we cant find the ‘(Wo)/Man” of the People in the US Presidential Race

Running in the US presidential race for someone in the middle/lower class will be as hard as climbing over the security of Fort Knox and robbing it.

As the champion democracy all around the world, the electoral system they built for themselves actually closes down the ability for everyone and anyone in participating in politics. In the efforts to bring democracy to political parties, primaries were created. Due to such system, in an ideal situation party leaders no longer has the absolute power to determine presidential candidates, but in practice the power of the party elite is taken over by the power of money.

In primaries, candidates have to raise enough fame to make people want to register and vote in the primaries (mind that its months away from the real election and the candidate you choose may not even win the primaries) AND they have to gain more popularity than other contenders.

According to Fortune, candidates have to prepare $10 million for setup, and after the fourth primaries candidates will have lost up to $40-$50 million for campaign. You will have to be filthy rich to campaign or have the strongest 1% elite back you up for that kind of money.

The argument for primaries will be good if the money spent is felt by all 99% of voters instead of the 1%. Sadly not all 235,248,000 of US voters come to the primaries. The ones who register and attend are usually the most loyal and the most extreme of the spectrum (i.e. explaining why celebrity candidates like Donald Trump can win the New Jersey primaries without any prior political experience). So the people who comes to primaries are not representative of the people, and those votes still don’t matter!

After primaries, the way to count the votes varies among states and differ according party regulation before they can come to a conclusion between which candidate proceed to the National Convention. A convention where a selected number of people will be chosen (in a non transparent manner) as “super delegates” and choose who will be the next president and vice from the party.

The complexity doesn’t stop there. So after you don’t directly choose the two party tickets for president, then comes the general elections where they say you get to vote directly but in fact there is still an electoral college where you delegate your vote to another “super delegate” chosen by the party to choose the president.

With all the complexities, lobbying, and money flushed down the campaign i don’t see how an independent candidate can survive. The system doesn’t accommodate their existence. if you are a non-party member you still have to go through a political party to win your ticket in.

Who are the non-party candidate this election?

Donald Trump, a multimillionaire racist demagogue. Ben Carson, a filthy rich neurosurgeon who lacks human emotions and said “Holocaust would not have been as devastating had people in Nazi Germany been armed”. and Carly Fiona a former CEO of Packard Hewlett who peaked early in the polls and just dropped out.