History often repeats itself. The crazy part about that idea is that people tend to overreact as if they had never seen such a thing. The recent election was a grueling one. There was a mass of controversy surrounding the two candidates. There was no perfect choice this year. There was a hated democratic candidate and a even more hated republican candidate. What many people forgot to look into was the idea that the United States had just had a democratic president serve two terms in office. In historic fashion, after something like this happens the country has more than likely went with the other political party in search of change. Donald Trump is surely to be a great indicator of change, one way or the other. With the new president in office, there is sure to be new defense policy in place. The biggest concern in the matter of what is going to happen to defense funding. In recent years the budget for defense has been decreasing steadily. That in turn has cut down the number of soldiers the military can recruit because of funding. This can be massive to the entire department. The fewer soldiers the more at risk the country is. From a deeper point of view, the less soldiers you have can be detrimental to intelligence as well. There will not be any one to man the drones, or control the UAV’s if funding is continually cut. The country will take a huge fall depending on the ways funding is cut. There are worse case scenarios that lead the United States to recalling the
Many people blame Trump for there not being many republican voters this year. Chris Cillizza begs to differ, his article “Republicans Have a Massive Electoral Map Problem That Has Nothing To Do With Trump.” explains exactly why Donald isn’t an issue. There can also been an argument that Trump isn’t suitable president. He speaks his mind and his honest about what he says. That is a perfect reason for him to be elected and that is why some people either love him or hate him.
America is the leading power in the world. Although to other countries we may seem like a well bonded country, we are divided. Democrats and Republicans in the past have never been this angry at each other in a long time. The last time our nation has been this divided was during the Civil War and events that partook after. Statistics in this past election show that 54% of Republicans our in disapproval of Democrats. While Democrats show a 55% disapproval toward Republicans (Election News). This divide started in 2008 when John McCain elected Sarah Palin to be his Vice President in the election vs. at the time Senator Barack Obama. After Obama was elected President, the Alt-Right and Conservatives were afraid that they would not have another Republican in office again. Back when Eisenhower was elected, Democrats and Republicans showed a 60% approval rating of him when elected into office (Thinker,America). From Lincoln to Trump on the other hand, Democrats nowadays are not happy with the New Republican Party. Then in 2015 Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. He than attracted the Alt-Right with his talks and inciting fear into Americans. Nowadays America is divided and
America is a land of very diverse people from all parts of the world. They all have wide varieties of interests, which are represented by both parties of its political system. The Democrats and Republicans represent two different standpoints; although they concentrate on the same issues both of them have different views on how the issues should be addressed. Two presidential campaigns in which the parties’ candidates differed on the issues are that of 1988 and 1996. Democracy only works when the people who represent the masses differ on the issues, so that to protect our freedom and the parties of our political system are the best representation of this ideology.
Political races is on the rise the rise of donald thump it has caused bad to happen to people and to see people like you have never seen them before their are two parties there were two people that did not get along it was bad because it did not stop because it did not stop it formed the two political parties we have today the republicans and the democrats and in the past they were the federalists and the anti federalists two parties but different ways of thanking.
Along with the possible corruption that took place, this occurrence has led this election to be one of the most significant events in American politics. A two party system was not new to the United States. Ever since the presidential race of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, the country was divided into Jeffersonian-Democrats,
This year’s election has had the worst candidates since the 1850’s. In the 1850’s we had two democratic presidents their names were: Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan. These two presidents were responsible for the civil war, by agreeing with the Kansas Nebraska Act signed in 1854, which made those two states (Kansas, and Nebraska) choose whether or not to allow Slavery. The people back in the 1850’s were in the exact presidential problem that we are in today. They were not happy with the people running, and the people running wanted to take more from the people, and England and the US still didn’t like each other. But in one decade these two democratic presidents tore the United States in half starting Civil war. Today we are in a situation worse than 1850’s, we are dealing with foreign terrorist attacks, and also domestic terrorist attacks, Heavy debt, and protests. If we have another democratic president we will possibly be in another Civil Dispute. We need someone who can take care of these problems and I believe that Donald Trump can do it.
Being the president of the United States is one of the most prestigious and difficult jobs. The fate of millions of people rests in their hands. The president is the leader of their country. A good leader can bring prosperity wile a bad leader could bring death to a nation. James David Barbers article, “The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House” addresses types of leadership and how the president’s personality can affect their success in office. The premise of Barber's argument in The Presidential Character is that he believes presidential personalities fall into four categories and combinations of activity, passivity, positivity, and negativity and those personality combinations can be indicative of presidential performance.
This year’s Presidential election is defiantly going to be one for the books no matter who wins in the end. There are so many people who believe that their candidate is so much better than the other and it feels like this country is pretty much divided in half. People who support Clinton, are finding ways to make Trump sound like the nastiest person alive and he is unfit to be the president and it is the same way for Trump supports about Clinton. I believe that they both have their good and bad points in their campaigns but they both also have very bad ideas that is not sitting well with anybody. People from the south are generally going to vote republican and people in the north are generally going to vote democratic. That is the way that it has been for decades and no one really expects anything to change in the way that the nation votes as a whole.
The election of Donald Trump exposed the depths of division in America today, and the duration of his presidency, no matter how long, will be a true test of this nation. No doubt, we are about to step onto the longest roller coaster ride of most of our lives, and none of us lined up for it. Nonetheless, this is our reality now. All that is left to do is deal with it.
Trumps rhetoric appealed to those Americans that relied on factory work and felt they were being left out of a modernizing world. It opened our closed minded heads here in Marin to how the middle of the country feels about the same United States we live in. In a way we are just as bad as Trump supporters if we try and degrade their opinions based on who they voted for. We felt Clinton represented us just as strongly as the other side felt that Trump represented them.
The reason why is most likely because Democrats are a liberal party who want to see change in the nation, while Republicans are conservatives and want to keep things traditional to America’s past history. These political platforms do not only apply to presidential elections, but to controversial topics that are brought up to Congress today. These topics affect the American citizen’s viewpoints on both parties when talking about Social Security, the economy, gun control, abortion. This, however, is to be
History of governments is a perfect example of where times change but the problems people face never do. Specifically, with the current presidential election, we see history repeats itself, many draw ties between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. Hitler gained in position in Germany through hate speech and creating a mass spread phobia of Jews, similarity Trump has gained popularity through hate speech and instilling a fear of Muslims and Islam in the American people. Hitler came to power in 1919 and yet despite the almost hundred years difference between him and Trump they still share many of the same campaign tactics and die hard supporters. History has always repeated itself and I am confident that we will see it continue to as well.
The majority of the public is dissatisfied with the Democratic and Republican party. They do not believe that either party can be trusted (Ginsbert et al, 2013). Both parties make promises they cannot deliver, promises such as no new taxes, decreasing the deficit, improve better health care, and etc. The public has heard it all. Unless the Congress and Senate are of the same party as the elected President, it is even hard for a President to keep least some of his promises.
Under Rawls’s “Ideal of the Statesman,” it is more clearly seen whether this strike was approved or rejected by Rawls. Rawls sees the statesman as not someone who holds an “office” but more of a “truthful or virtuous individual” (Rawls, 97). This means no matter what position someone holds that does not mean automatically that they are a statesman. Therefore, Donald Trump must prove himself a statesman to use that way of thinking that Rawls presents. While under the Law of Peoples the idea of whether the strike was allowed or not is under contention, Donald Trump has proven himself to not be a statesman time and time again. Looking back at this past election year, Donald Trump has never exemplified someone who looks to “the next generation,”
Trump is the very personification of the benefits and risks of transformational leadership. Trump is a quintessential example of a personality cult; his followers displayed excessive adoration for him and his plan to “make America great again”. Trump’s campaign demonstrates the benefits of transformational leadership. Though his arguably racist, misogynistic and inflammatory rhetoric was unsavoury to some, it mobilised a previously marginalised group of voters demonstrating how transformational leadership can inspire and invoke enthusiasm. Further, his remarkable success as a republican candidate in an increasingly liberal society demonstrates how his promises to take risks and make change generated high levels of following – a further strength