My feelings about the election are that Hillary Clinton should have won. As it turned out, Donald Trump did. There are a few reasons I was not happy with the way it turned out. For one, Hillary would have been the first female president. How amazing would that have been? To go from women not even being allowed to vote, to voting for a woman?
That is not the only thing. Clinton has spent her entire career in politics. She has decades of experience. The one thing people use to complain about her is the email scandal, and even the FBI said there was nothing incriminating about it. Now, if we look at her opponent, Trump has no experience in politics, he has been a businessman his whole career. And on top of that, he has accusations of sexually assaulting women. Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, has even said that he would like to go back to the 1950s idea of electrically shocking people out of being gay, lesbian, transgender, etc. Trump has made fun of a disabled person on television, and time and time again implied that people of color are not as capable as white people. So, here you have a very qualified individual, with a virtually clean record, versus a man who is disrespectful, bigotted, and inexperienced. Voting republican this year seems to mean voting to go back a few decades. But who do the American people choose? Trump of course. I keep imagining how this is going to affect women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, as well as other minorities. And I can't help but think it has something to do with the fact that Hillary is a woman. Even in 2016, people still have this underlying idea that men are somehow more capable than women, even when that woman is far more qualified for the job.
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jeremiah
11/10/2016 11:58:54 am
I honestly don't understand how people can want Trump and Pence to lead us after all that they have said, it is completely ridiculous to me. Do you agree? How upset were you when you found out Trump is going to be president
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Zoe Meaney
11/10/2016 12:06:34 pm
Yeah, I completely agree. The whole day after the election I couldn't think about anything else. I am honestly terrified for what's going to happen to the progress this country has made in the past few years for minorities.
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