Posted on 01/26/2017 9:00:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
This past election has many people on their toes. I have read countless articles with phrases along the lines of “calm down” and “we’ll be fine no matter what.” I disagree. There are many controversial topics that our new president, Donald J. Trump, has approached with no sensitivity.
In the past two years alone, Trump has used his time in the spotlight to express his disdain against immigrants, John McCain, Megyn Kelly, The Wall Street Journal, Muslims, women, the LGBTQ+ community, Planned Parenthood, the Affordable Care Act and Hillary Clinton
He knew that, no matter what he said or did, his followers would remain loyal. As he said in January 2016, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
Trump has also used his power to attack the media, immigrants and all of the progress made in the past eight years by President Barack Obama. Trump has stood on the platform of the Republican Party and raked his own name through the mud.
Though Trump is now our nation’s president, the country has not rallied behind him. The United States of America is more separated than before the election began. There are hate crimes, racial slurs and countless videos online of people committing acts of discrimination in his name. We are taking steps backward from the equality many have worked so hard for.
As a high school junior born in 2000, and a female, I have been put down for my opinions. My generation is often ridiculed for not agreeing with our parents’ beliefs. However, this election is one of the most important ones in my lifetime. It will affect my financial aid for college, the job market I will enter and the housing market and economy when I will buy a house and start a family. This is why many teenagers have tuned in to the election and the presidency of Donald Trump. We are concerned and afraid of how it may affect our lives.
As an environmental activist, I oppose Trump’s plan to complete the Keystone Pipeline. This is very detrimental to our environment. The oil used from the pipeline will increase carbon emissions, which is very harmful to our already weak atmosphere and will reverse efforts to slow climate change, something most Republicans do not even believe exists.
Another central aspect of Trump’s campaign was immigration. He wants to deport all illegal immigrants in the country. Aside from the incredibly high costs of mass deportation and the fact that it’s nearly impossible, it would actually hurt, not help, the economy.
While immigrants do take jobs, they also use goods and services that create economic activity and more jobs. This situation is similar to graduates entering the workforce. They are new so they take jobs, but they also have to pay for food, rent, bills, etc. This stimulates the economy.
If money and logistics were not an issue, we could remove the immigrants, which would open up jobs, but it would also decrease the number of jobs produced by the economic activity they create.
In summary, I disagree very strongly with the statements that “we will be fine” coming from the other journalists out there. The Trump presidency has already caused protests and negative response from people who voted against him.
I believe Trump’s presidency will be like inhaling a ball of smoke from a fire; it will leave America coughing and trying to catch its breath.
Yep, a real snowflake.
She is a good little German.
Polygamy?
“Trump has used his time in the spotlight to express his disdain against immigrants, John McCain, Megyn Kelly, The Wall Street Journal, Muslims, women, the LGBTQ+ community, Planned Parenthood, the Affordable Care Act and Hillary Clinton” That pretty much sums up why I was FOR trump along with revitalizing our economy among other things. I also don’t think he has disdain for women.
He certainly has the right adversaries.
A junior in high school is just SO WORLDLY
Never mind the lack of qualifications, if it’s Anti Trump, then publish it
and a pussyhat to wear in her safe space
When Hillary was that age, she was for Goldwater.
Emilee - you do not speak for a generation.
The + is probably for monogamy -
I do not think that word would ever occur to that crowd, just a chuckle in my otherwise boring existence
Her generation worries because it’s the snowflake generation.
Her formative years in school were spent chanting
Barak Hussein Obama!
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm!
Barak Hussein Obama!
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm!
I was 16 in 1994, and was well-versed in politics, and could more than hold my own in discussions.
I also knew I was 16, and knee enough to know I didn’t know enough to ever write something like this.
When Hillary was that age, she was for Goldwater.
Then she went to Wellesley College, and became a fully indoctrinated communist.
Now the little communists are indoctrinated in K-12.
Bill Ayers. Hell, he wrote Obama’s two books and they were actually literarily coherent unlike the Great Snorator.
LOL, how can you be bored when Trump is kicking liberal asses? Damn, this is the most excited I’ve been since Reagan won.
Now the little communists are indoctrinated in K-12.
There is a reason why Bill Ayers became an "elementary education theorist" after skating on federal charges stemming from his exploits as a domestic terrorist. "Guilty as sin, free as a bird."
The education sector is overrun with commies. No doubt Salisbury High School is full of them.
Who elected her spokesperson for her generation? Quite arrogant.
Emilee,
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Sincerely,
Rhett
She will wind up plucking chickens for Perdue Farms down in Salisbury most likely.
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