The 2016 Presidential Election: where people attack a man dressed as a robot at a Marco Rubio rally, Barack Obama’s citizenship is called into question, and Ben Carson declared the Egyptian pyramids a site for storing grain.

This election is ridden with insults, name calling, and straight up heresay. Donald Trump is notorious for his constant verbal gaffes (which is part of the reason NBC gave him a reality show – he’s great television), but his remarks are embarrassing and offensive. One year ago we all chuckled at Trump because he was a reality star running for president, so yes, it was entertaining. His Twitter account looked more like a parody account than that of a possible leader of our country. One of his most laughable tweets reads “Hillary Clinton didn’t go to Louisiana and now, she didn’t go to Mexico. She doesn’t have the drive or stamina to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” (Come on, were the caps really a necessity Donald?) Nobody thought he had a chance to win the republican nomination. Now that he has, comments like those have transformed from laughable to alarming.

Hillary Clinton is no stranger to low blows either. During a Donald Trump roast, the democratic candidate said “He thinks he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.”

According to a poll ran by The Hill, 47% of Trump supporters are voting for the republican for the sole reason of keeping Hillary out of the Oval Office. A petty 46% of Hillary supporters are doing the same, backing the candidate just to make sure Trump is not sworn in.

What has this come to? People are too stubborn, too locked in their hostile ways to even consider the opposing ideas. How is anything going to get done if people decide to vote solely off a loathing for the opposition? How will compromise show its reassuring face if people’s eyes are shut to the possibility?

This stubbornness will soon become toxic. If a candidate is elected because he or she is simply disliked less, chaos is bound to ensue at some point. Before us lies two unappealing candidates who spend more time tearing the other down then making their own case. Where this will end cannot be predicted. The solution lies in the hands of the voters. The only way this election can end positively is if the voters make a well-researched decision based on what they want to see in a candidate.