Blog 6
I was going to avoid writing about the election, really I did not even want to bother with such a highly charged and emotionally raw topic for a lot of people. Personally I did not care which candidate won, I will start off by saying that to me really the “good” option didn’t exist there was the crook and the bigot and neither should be leading this country. That is just my opinion but it helps you to see my bias and opinions on the issue.
I was going to avoid writing about the election, really I did not even want to bother with such a highly charged and emotionally raw topic for a lot of people. Personally I did not care which candidate won, I will start off by saying that to me really the “good” option didn’t exist there was the crook and the bigot and neither should be leading this country. That is just my opinion but it helps you to see my bias and opinions on the issue.
For the
last couple of days people have been protesting en masse about the election of
Donald Trump. At first I thought they were protesting the results and I could
not understand how they could be protesting the results of democracy, the
system working as intended. That is until I actually listened to some
protestors and learned they were protesting the things Trump stood for and that
those values are not ones they agreed with, and I understood. For me this
election doesn’t effect me or matter to me enough to make me want to protest, I
think we can pull together as a country and get through whatever our new
president has in store. But clearly some people believe this is the beginning
of the end.
Peaceful
protest is a foundation of our society. It is important for people to be able
to express themselves to the government and the rest of the country. Some of
the protests have seemed silly to me, such as the students that walked out of
school with signs saying “Education not deportation” … if you want education
don’t walk out of school. Overall the protesting have been positive messages of
peaceful protest. What detracts from the protests the most I believe is when
people use them as way to riot and loot rather than get their peaceful message
across. The rioters and looters destroy the message the rest of the protestors
are trying to get across. There are several stories across the nation of
supposedly peaceful people attacking Trump supporters, one story in particular
that comes to mind is a group of Black Lives Matter protestors who beat up and
74 year old Trump supporter and stole their truck. That type of “protesting”
only creates more divides in our country and has no place in this world. It is
not getting a message across it is simply being a criminal.
If the
nation is going to come together and heal then peace and understanding need to
be the resounding messages, not hate and violence. Those who spread hate and
violence are simply turning people against whatever message they stand for
hurting their cause and the cause of those around them.
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