There is a first time for everything, especially voting in elections. Between the first potential female president, Hillary Clinton, a businessman with a great understanding of economics, Donald Trump, and a sweet old man, Bernie Sanders. It may seem like a tough choice. In reality, new voters are having their first experience with manipulation.

Upon inspecting Clinton’s campaign website, she states that she has a goal of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. People seem to ignore the consequences of this raising wages. It will lead to workers being laid off. It would simply be too costly to hire a large amount of workers. The Congressional Budget Office even says that an increase to $10 will “reduce total employment by about 500,000 workers.”

Clinton’s Republican counterpart has different ideas.

As some might remember, the last time Trump was relevant was when he was the “roastee” on a Comedy Central Roast. What is perhaps worse than Trump’s inane ramblings are the people who are genuinely scared of him.

Trump’s idea to, in his words on his website, “make Mexico pay for the wall” seems far-fetched, and laughable. Trump states, “In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up,” which makes little sense.

Overall, Trump only seems to want to shock people.

Sanders seems to be the popular candidate with younger Democrats. This is due to his socialist views, which already gives a red flag. Socialism is seen as the better alternative to Capitalism because the basics are provided for the people. However, this eliminates incentive to work hard.

Sanders also seems to have a vendetta against the 1% of the country, he expects the wealthy to pay for free college, which most high school students would dream of. In the same sense that free healthcare is of lower quality in places like Canada, is education really going to be exceptional quality if it is free?

According to U.S. News, eight of the top ten best colleges in the world are in America. Eventually, Sanders supporters are going to end up paying for the next generation of college students.

In all honesty, I am embarrassed that this is the first election I get to vote in. From Jeb Bush asking people to clap for him at his rally then dropping from the race, to Sanders being a credit card company targeting college-bound students, it is hard to not laugh at something as serious as who will lead our country.