My Red Flags
Over most of my life, I have been primarily inactive in politics. I had my beliefs on issues and what I believe to be sound reasoning to support them. I would vote and occasionally engage in a debate, but not what I considered really active. I always knew that I was generally more liberal than the U.S. average, but I really did assume the typical person had progressed farther than this.
After the election in November, my belief was both reaffirmed and shattered at the same time. It was reaffirmed in the idea that there were more than 2 million people that chose to vote against the fear and hateful ideas that Donald Trump often used during his campaign. The fact that the raw numbers had that large of a difference did show that most of the public had progressed. However, there was still a large faction of the country that had not progressed as far as I had hoped. Granted, the number of eligible voters versus those that turned out was not a great comparison, but still. The overall vote showed that there were plenty of people that supported the fearful and hateful policies advocated by Trump or people that were willing to overlook and tolerate those policies.
Either way, moving on after the election, Donald Trump had gained the appropriate amount of electoral votes in our system to become president elect. Based on some of the statements and his overall frequency of losing his temper quickly, I started to watch his transition team closer than ever. After the election, Donald Trump and his team began to reveal their vision of a Trump administration. As many of the ideas and appointments unfolded, my background in history could not help but draw parallels, and my time studying the Constitution could not help seeing red flags.
After the election in November, my belief was both reaffirmed and shattered at the same time. It was reaffirmed in the idea that there were more than 2 million people that chose to vote against the fear and hateful ideas that Donald Trump often used during his campaign. The fact that the raw numbers had that large of a difference did show that most of the public had progressed. However, there was still a large faction of the country that had not progressed as far as I had hoped. Granted, the number of eligible voters versus those that turned out was not a great comparison, but still. The overall vote showed that there were plenty of people that supported the fearful and hateful policies advocated by Trump or people that were willing to overlook and tolerate those policies.
Either way, moving on after the election, Donald Trump had gained the appropriate amount of electoral votes in our system to become president elect. Based on some of the statements and his overall frequency of losing his temper quickly, I started to watch his transition team closer than ever. After the election, Donald Trump and his team began to reveal their vision of a Trump administration. As many of the ideas and appointments unfolded, my background in history could not help but draw parallels, and my time studying the Constitution could not help seeing red flags.