by Jack Rivet
In the months leading up to the presidential election in 2016, there have been countless candidates to come and go from the media spotlight.
Among them, and perhaps the most notable, is Donald J. Trump, as he calls for a radical immigration reform and an inconceivably discriminatory mandate regarding muslim immigrants.
But perhaps most shocking, and the sole reason Mr. Trump has retained mainstream media attention for so long, is the sheer fact that millions of Americans rally behind the incredibly vague, and often prejudiced call to “Make America Great Again” that has rung through the alarmed ears of many ethnic minorities targeted by the campaign.
Though it seems unlikely that the kind man portrayed by Mr. Trump’s supporters is the very same as the Donald Trump who, while not campaigning, is attacking the appearance of his female political rivals and describing a woman with whom he disagrees as “disgusting inside and out” because of their petty arguments, as he so belligerently stated about his social adversary, Rosie O’Donnell.
Throughout his campaign, and his professional life, Donald Trump has lacked in the fundamental decency to comply to the common etiquette of our complex political environment.
As it seems, Trump has not adequately described his position on domestic issues beyond his forceful and xenophobic stance on immigration.
In the various debates and speeches he has held, the sole discussion was intended to rile up crowds with a hatred towards undocumented immigrants and foreign muslims, while avoiding going into great detail on issues that would dictate the future of our nation’s economy, writing off such issues with phrases such as “We will beat them economically!”
Important topics are further avoided by bragging about his mediocre success with his astronomically large inheritance.
As can be drawn from the militaristic nature of the previously stated issues, Donald Trump is terribly forceful with near every topic.
His claim to destroy the Islamic State, at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives is only the beginning of Trump’s hostile, expansive position on foreign policy.
Issues such as the construction of a wall are expensive meaningless defense measures that would do little good to our economy.
The claim that Mexico will fund a several hundred billion dollar wall at the expenditure of their nation’s economy is ridiculous.
On the topic of such comical proposals, the idea of baring muslim travelers from the country until we can “figure things out” is a discriminatory, and flawed measure of insuring the nation’s security.
There is no real way to determine someone’s faith from their race or ethnicity!
We know what is going on and have no need for further inquiry, and what is stopping the small portion of muslims in association with the jihadist groups from recruiting someone of a different faith to carry out such tasks?
Truly the worst part of Trump’s horrific campaign is the sheer fact that he seems to develop prejudices overnight, as necessary to fuel his campaign as if Donald Trump’s own faith in his beliefs are inconsistent or even completely a masque for some other purpose.
Regardless of his own beliefs, Trump and his “copyrighted” slogans stolen from Reagan’s Campaign, have attracted a shockingly large collection of moderate Fascist Fundamental-ists who have done their share to prop up a largely misguided campaign into the public and the media spotlight, integrating a skewed, unethical perception of the United States into the eyes of the World.
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Guest editorialist Jack Rivet lives in Old Forge and is an eighth grade student at Town of Webb.