I Should Be Allowed To Vote Analysis

I have never ever voted in my life and as a non-US citizen, I am not allowed to vote. Due to this situation, voting becomes uninteresting to me. In addition, none of my parents are into politics hence, there is no role model that guide us, me and my siblings, for the importance of it. I’m not saying that my parents do not care about politics, and how the government works here in the US, but since we are all non-US citizen they do not see the urge to make politics and voting a big deal. It 's not until I had a government class in high school that opened up these kinds of topics to me, how government works, politics, voting, etc. Moreover, taking this class really opened up my mind to these kinds of topics, especially voting. I would say that …show more content…
Before, I used to think that I don’t have a choice but to just sit and wait till election is over, but after hearing other people with the same scenario as me, saying that I should not let my situation hinder me, and do not think that I can not do anything about this election, I realized that I can do something that can contribute to making a difference in this country. For example, I can encourage people who can vote to use their vote wisely, especially my friends that have an opportunity to vote. One memorable story was encouraging my best friend to register to vote. I even dragged her to the place where her parents registered. She told me that she never thought that I was the one who would make her involved in her first ever voting experience, and I am excited and a bit envy with her, but I know that her vote will count and will help make a difference. This class, it made me realize that voting is very important, and can make a difference, especially today that our candidates are unique than previous elections. I will be applying for citizenship soon and I can’t wait till the next …show more content…
Before, I thought that representatives of democratic and republicans can be as many as they can as long as they want to run as a president. I didn’t even know that there are voting procedures on who is going to represent each party. I also did not know that there are certain requirement to follow to qualify at running as presidents, such as age and natural born citizen. I was not that aware of how government works and how the government officials get their positions until this class opened it up to me. I used to think that judges, congressional representatives, and other higher level position just apply and get hired normally, like how it usually works. I did not know that they are appointed or voted to be in their positions until our professor explained it. I did not even know that SCOTUS judge is a lifetime job. I know that you might think that I am making this up and I should know these already, but I was not born and raised here that is why most of these are new to me. I do not think that I will ever be this engaged about politics if I did not take this class. I never thought that voting and campaigning in different states has a different procedure, such as caucuses. And I would never ever think that I will treasure the importance of voting and encourage people about it. I know that some might