Friday, August 26, 2016

Finding the Middle Ground


The LGBT community has been around for ages. Since the beginning they've been fighting for what they see as equal rights. However, is that really the case? 

Since the sixties and seventies the LGBT community has tried and tried to be accepted. Through each stage our country goes through they get more and more accepted. This day and age majority of people are either all for gays, or don't even really care. Few people actually don't agree. You'd think that's where the gays would be content, right? Apparently not. The gays just keep wanting more and more from the rest of the world. Such as wanting to use the bathroom of their choice and complaining  that waiters or business people refuse to serve them. Isn't that going above equality? If you consider yourself heterosexual then you use the bathroom of your gender, correct? That's how it's always been.  

So where is the middle ground in all of this? The LGBT community has gotten what they wanted and then some. They have surpassed the middle ground already, so how far can they go? The middle ground should be equality. Personally I believe in equality for everybody and everything. That means the gays should be equal with the heterosexuals, the blacks should be equal with the whites, and so on. 


Thursday, August 18, 2016

Donald Trump Presidency

  
Ian Tuttle wrote an article addressing his opinion on the Donald Trump campaign. I, on the other hand, do not agree with his claims. He, like many others, supports Hillary Clinton. The claims he uses are convincing to some but not to me, and here's why.     In this article one of the claims is, "those who site the Supreme Court as a compelling reason to vote for Trump are of the befuddling opinion that the same man who has demonstrated willful ignorance of the Constitution, who has promised to subvert the Constitution, and whose dealings with the judiciary demonstrate contempt for the Constitution, is the man who will save it." However earlier in the article it also states, "Hillary Clinton has made clear she wants to overturn Citizen's United...and she has waffled on the Courts Heller decision."  Isn't changing the constitution disrespecting it also?      Furthermore, the article address Trumps judges and lawyers the article says, "Donald Trump likes judges who like Donald Trump; he wanted a judge who would put his interest above the law." Similarly, Hillary and her husband Bill met with an FBI agent. Why? To clear her name from the Benghazi murders. 



A lot of people say Hillary did have any association with the men that died, however, they sent messages asking for help that went to Hillary's office and she never replied. How do we know she won't pull that if she's in office?      Likewise, the author discusses facts about Trump saying, "There simply is no reason to believe that the same Trump who has contradicted himself amnesty for illegal immigrants, abortion, NATO, and much else.." However, what the author refuses to understand is Hillary contradicts herself just as much, if not more, than Trump. According to foxnews.com, Hillary stated, "…hard working Americans across our country deserve a president with both the ideas and the know-how to create good jobs with rising incomes right here in our country." On the other hand, she despised job creation especially in small businesses. She even applauded Obama for his way of handling the economy. It's just that poverty increased and middle class incomes dropping in that time.