As most of you know I'm a German citizen living in Canada. As a result, I can't vote. Because I can't vote, and because I really don't understand politics, and don't care to because I find it boring, I've never really been involved or interested in politics. My husband votes, my son will be 18 this year and he'll be voting in the next election. My daughter will vote in 5 years. Until I become a Canadian, I can't vote. Because I've never been able to in my 45 years, I've never really cared. Whoever they choose I accept. It's not like I can do anything about it, so I've never really given it a lot of thought or time or effort.
Now, I do know that in Canada, when we have an election, we have different segments of government, same as you do in the US. You have Democrat or Republican, right?
In Canada when you vote, all you have to have is ID to show you're 18 and a citizen of Canada. You can vote for whoever is running, despite the faction of government they're representing. If that makes sense. In other words, if we had Democrat or Republican, we could vote for either at election. You do not have to pick one before the vote.
My question is this, because I've seen people posting about registering to vote in the US, and choosing either Democrat or Republican. Do you not get to choose anyone on the list of people running? Let's say you register as a Democrat, does that mean you can only vote for whoever is running as a Democrat? What if the only person running as a Democrat is an idiot that shouldn't be allowed to run a convenience store much less a country? What then? Do you simply not vote and hope that the other people that registered as Democrat, don't vote either?
I'm an idiot when it comes to politics, I freely admit it. I'm not stupid, but when it comes to politics, I am, so really, I'd like a crash course, and make it 101 for dummies, because politics and me, we don't like each other. I just don't get it, can't wrap my head around it. It makes no sense to me at all.
From what I'm reading, it looks like there's a very good chance that Donald Trump will win. Now I won't complain. Donald as president can only mean good things for Canada. He'll destroy the US, and as a result our dollar will go up, and we'll thrive, while the US is ruined. That's pretty darn good for me and my family, since we live in Canada. But why would anyone in their right mind vote for him? Is it because they have no choice because that's how they registered?
Just really don't get it. Can someone explain it and dumb it down for me?
Please don't turn this into some debate about who should win, or why, and all the evils and all the other crap I see on the politics forum. I'm not giving you a platform to do that. I just want someone to tell me how it works in the US, because it really doesn't make a lot of sense to me.