Thursday, October 25, 2018
Let Dreamers Dream
Since Donald Trump’s election as U.S. President in 2016, there has been persistent discussion on his motive to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico to put a halt to illegal immigration. President Trump’s arrogant and exclamatory tweets have made his opinion on immigration clear in that he believes building a wall is essential for the progression of the country. I, along with many others, disagree. Politician and 2018 Texas U.S. Senate nominee Beto O’Rourke is opposed to the building of Trump’s border wall and has mentioned in multiple interviews and public speakings that 2018 has been a year for record safety and security in regards to our border with Mexico. While President Donald Trump is clearly not understanding of this, his efforts to build the wall maintain present. The concept of a wall quite literally separating two countries is preventing many from seeking and pursuing a better future not only as individuals, but for families as well. For the leader of our country to suggest an idea that is indirectly showing an act of racism and hate is incredibly malicious and inconsiderate. I am in complete disagreeance of Trump’s efforts to build a wall and believe that if he wants to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants, he should first consider that this is an utmost physical representation of the racial and cultural insults that he has portrayed since the announcement of his presidential running. To conclude, it should also be considered that economic activity in the United States has skyrocketed, and building a wall would stifle this growth and drain money that is needed to fund schools, create jobs, and so much more. A wall is not necessary and it never will be. The “American Dream” should continue to be an attainable goal for those who are coming to our country to work for it.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
The Media is Fooling Us
On October 19th, 2018, Rob Savillo wrote an article about how mass media has been consistently ignoring and failing to speak about the topic of healthcare in 2018. Although health care has been and will always be considered a large issue (especially with midterm elections coming up), and with Republicans having made efforts to alter health care policies in a negative way, the topic still has hardly been touched on all year. Rob Savillo mentions how even some of the largest news broadcasts in the country have failed to address the issue, even though they have some of the largest audiences of any media sources in the genre. I feel as though this is a prime example of biases within mass media as a whole because as mentioned, the GOP-led attacks on the ACA are failing to be mentioned on channels like CBS, NBC, and ABC. This would clearly mean that these channels are avoiding publicity on these attacks by avoiding the discussion as a whole, simply because they know fewer people will watch their broadcasts if they showed their political views so clearly. The author also mentions in his article that the efforts to sabotage health care policy in 2018 have purely been done by the Republican party and the Trump administration. In conclusion, this article goes to show that biases within the media do exist. And as long as we continue to be listeners and consumers of this information, we can all be easily brainwashed into altering our political views based off of what someone else is telling us.
Friday, October 5, 2018
Critics of Kavanaugh
On October 4th, 2018, The New York Times Editorial Board wrote an article addressing the many ways that Brett Kavanaugh failed and is failing to withhold his nomination to the Supreme Court and why he should not be nominated. The Editorial Board is writing from the opinions of the board, its editor, and its publisher. The intended audience could potentially be toward people who are in support of Brett Kavanaugh, as it states many reasons and situations where he should not be elected to the Supreme Court, or it could be for an audience who is already against the nomination of Kavanaugh, as they would agree with majority of the statements within the article. As the article is written from opinions of those from the Editorial Board, “credibility” regarding the information within the article can be deemed true due to the fact that there are mostly facts stated throughout. However, The Editorial Board does throw in many statements that come from their own judgements of Kavanaugh. The author’s main argument is essentially that the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is very much testing the politicians and civic institutions of our country. Evidence and reasoning for this argument is stated throughout the article in many circumstances. To name a few… First, The Editorial Board mentions the concern that if Kavanaugh is willing to lie under oath about the situation regarding his sexual assault accusations, that he will most likely lie about bigger things as well. Second, Kavanaugh raised his voice in an angry manner during his hearing at Democratic senators and refused to answer the questions that they had for him regarding the incident with Christine Ford, the woman who he supposedly raped back in 1982 at a high school party. With many more reasons listed throughout the article, it is clear that Kavanaugh’s consistent dishonesty and failure to act according to law gives plenty of logical reasons to not support him in his nomination and his self defense regarding the situation with Christine Ford.
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