Your Vote Matters

Here's an idea:
Directly voting for a candidate... Just kidding, what kind of democracy would that be? Here in America, we do it right! Just follow these steps:
First, you'll need to vote for someone to actually vote for you, but that person you voted for will need to find a delegate able to vote for him, which keep in mind, is voting for you. Then that delegate, the person you voted for selected, will be able to vote on someone who can represent them, I mean you, who will finally choose the candidate you wanted, months later at the party convention. Or not, because they really aren't required to vote the way the people originally wanted, especially if the vote would go to a second ballot. I mean it all makes sense to me. I guess the best way to improve our democracy would be like... having a voting telephone game. As soon as the new President is elected, we can start voting on people, to vote on other people, to vote on certain people, to vote on a select people, to vote for us in the next election and hopefully by the last person, they chose the correct candidate you wanted in the first place. However, since that is so simple, we do also have more "important people" choose who should actually win. These are people in which no one elected, that will have significant delegates, which will be able to basically control the outcome of any election. So, there you have it, a slightly over-exaggerated, way you nominate a candidate. Our entire voting system needs reformed, not just the primaries and caucuses, but also in November when we have to go through it all again, with the electoral college. Your vote continues to mean less and less. The people in power will do anything to win an election, for example:

Gerrymandering districts, creating new voter ID laws, closed primaries (not allowing the largest body of people, Independents, to vote), requiring early registration, reducing polling places and ballots, misreporting precincts, having ridiculous waiting lines, changing polling hours, states only having caucuses, altering rules after votes, and as I mentioned earlier, the entire idea of Superdelegates, would be infringing upon our most basic and essential right as people. No, not The Second Amendment, sorry ammosexuals, but you would think there would be similar uproar. They are coming to take all of our votes away I tell ya!

It's no wonder people have given up on the political process and why we have one of the lowest voter turnouts among all developed countries in the world.

But remember your VOTE, for someone to vote for you, MATTERS. This great democracy would never try, in so many different ways, to suppress YOUR VOTE, for someone to vote for you.