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.
And the lie upon lie upon lie is more than a little outrageous; to say the least.
Another reason to homeschool...the socialist government schools aka pagan academies are factories for this kind of thinking
Irrational fears are no basis for a system of government.
She probably didn’t pen this letter herself, but make no mistake she believes all this crap. As Rush would say a young skull full of mush, and there are sadly millions of skulls of mush like Emilee being produced by our nation’s public school system.
Sounds like she cribbed the National Review’s or the NY Times’ editorial page.
She is 16 years old, she does not have a “generation” as she is not old enough to claim it. What scares me is the idiocy of this ingrate child.
I think Emilee is ready for college.
Did you see her picture? No amount of plastic surgery is going to help that poor, very stupid, deranged child. But what can one expect when her own parents so horridly misspelled her name, to make her “stand out” !
Bump and ping.
Protest is an American tradition. America rejected the Obama legacy and the poor candidate Clinton. America will now take a new direction. I suspect great things will happen for America. Of course I lack the perspective of a 16 year old girl who has yet to understand the world.
What a dolt
I believe the content of the letter explains why she has had that response.
But look at all the people out there protesting and sheeeit.
But look at all the people out there protesting and sheeeit.
Oh, to be 16, and know everything. Those were the days.
I was passing out flyers trying to help President Ford beat Jimmy Carter and attending high school. I would’ve never thought to pen an opinion piece to tell adults how to think.
The + I assume is Pedophilia, Bestiality, and hmm, can anyone name some other perversions they are hoping to normalize?
That's because you're still a child, your opinions are ill formed and you've had no experience whatsoever to back them up. You're merely regurgitating what you've heard from people you "like."
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.
And, that's because you were eight years old, the last time there was a President other than Obama. You have no basis of comparison within the minuscule amount of time in which you've even been remotely aware.
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