Always Chirpin: This is Your Country Be Proud
February 3, 2017
As a three year old I recall not getting my way, stomping my feet throwing a fit, and after this whole charade nothing changed I was still going to my room.
Millions of women must not have learned this lesson, as millions are marching in the street doing what I would say is the same old charade they did as three year olds.
The women’s march may have empowered many but for me it just made me want throw up. Last I checked hurting someone’s feelings doesn’t call for impeachment, and as a US citizen Donald Trump is your president. Good for those who aren’t US citizens trump isn’t your president explaining why you are no longer allowed here.
The women’s march caused no good, I personally saw no point to it. After a day of yelling all that was left in DC was trash, these feminists exited the world capitol trashed. People said they were going to “blow up the Whitehouse”, not exactly peaceful protest. Women also spoke inappropriately of Trump as they have complained he has done to them. One women talked about his “wet dreams” for his own daughter. Absolutely disgusted in the hypocritical way these women acted.
I do not identify as a feminist and apparently that makes me a disgrace to women. I’m grateful for what I have. Trump will not and does not have the power to take away women’s right to vote, drive, dress how they please, speak freely, work, etc. Now there are women in other countries who can’t leave their house of show anything other than their face, not even their hair. We should be happy with what we have and not dwelling on what we don’t.
The newest thing people have been complaining about is the wall. Yes Trump is building a wall and making a ban on immigrants, no this isn’t some awful new thing. Obama made a ban on Russians and even back right after WWI there was a ban on all immigrants accept Mexico, so stop thinking this is a new idea and Trump is so evil.
People need to be proud of America it is the best country in the world and if you don’t like it get out. I don’t see many people leaving and that’s because they know it doesn’t get better in many other places.
Thys Millan • Feb 8, 2017 at 3:43 pm
To begin with, I would like to state that many of the facts you attempt to use as proof of your argument in this article are alternative facts at best. Firstly, the Women’s March was an expression of free speech and the largest synchronized protest in modern history, providing a voice not only for those who would like to speak out against Trump but to highlight pressing issues that women face in everyday life that have been brought to the public’s attention during and after last year’s election. I would also like to remind you that no single person was arrested in that march worldwide. Not one. So much for your attempt to paint it as violent. Secondly, Obama did not, to my knowledge, enact a travel ban on Russians. What he did was expel 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives (i.e. spies) from the country and enact sanctions on Russian companies and organizations for their involvement in state-sponsored Russian hacking during the U.S. election. Thirdly, I would like to point out that the Immigration Act of 1917, which you incorrectly reference as “post World War 1”, excluded (and I quote) “All idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics;…persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective…” and so on (source: http://library.uwb.edu/Static/USimmigration/39%20stat%20874.pdf). Not quite the epitome of American charity, now is it?
Next, I would like to address the issue of the March itself. What you called a “charade” was, in fact, a completely valid protest. Those people were not protesting because they did not get their way, as you imply in your first paragraph. They were protesting because they are afraid of what Trump will do, believe that it will severely harm their rights and liberties as citizens, and will not stand to see that happen. In this case, an appropriate comparison may be made to Germany in 1933. Hitler won the German Chancellorship for the first time in that year with a little more than 30% of the popular vote. If people protested that particular election, would you in turn have wanted to vomit? Because there seems to be a recurring theme in your articles that seems to suggest that you simply detest all protests in general. Yes, as a United States citizen, Donald Trump is my President; but does that mean that I like this fact, or that I think that he is fit for the job? If I see an injustice, I write about it and share my views that way. If that does not work, I use my voice. If that in turn does not work, what should I use? Would you suggest that I use Twitter, call people extremely rude things, spread lies to the rest of the nation, and completely capitalize whatever negative adjectives I use?
And now, on to my own opinion: Donald Trump is a lying, bigoted, brash, and disgusting old man. If left unchecked, I believe that he will cause the elimination of major freedoms which we enjoy today, and increase our national debt to an unheard of level. I believe he has bolstered and brought to the limelight fascist and white supremacist movements across the nation, that he will significantly lower our standing in the international world down to the level of North Korea and, quite possibly, that he will initiate a war reminiscent of that in Vietnam. I have found that many people share my views over the course of the last year or so. Is it any wonder, then, that people would protest him? This is not a matter of pride in one’s country. It is a matter of hope. If we can make ourselves heard, if we can stay the mad orangutan that has escaped his cage, perhaps we can also prevent any regression to a more backwards time while simultaneously progressing forwards.
John F. Kennedy once said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. The American people have a long history of standing up to oppression, from rebelling against King George III of England to fighting a civil war for the release of slaves from their shackles to the put down of Nazism to granting LGBT people the right to marry. Why then, considering this long history of righteous dissent, protests, and even wars, should we stop now?
Cecily Feliz • Feb 8, 2017 at 12:05 pm
As someone who actually attended the march this is inaccurate. It was actually an extremely peaceful protest, there were no arrests at all in Washington among the hundreds of thousands of people that were there. It is our right as Americans to have the ability to protest, and frankly there is no problem with it. The purpose of the march was to show that women are a big part of the population and that we will not be silenced. It was not people being immature over losing the race, it’s because people are truly concerned over who is in office. I know you may disagree and that is perfectly okay. The world would be boring if people didn’t have opposing opinions. However i find that this argument could have been worded much more maturely. In conclusion the point of these marches werent to complain but, it’s because millions of women across the globe are genuinely scared of what this man is capable of.
I hope you understand