By Oliver P. Clarke
Well, it has happened. The Republican Party has officially nominated Donald Trump as their candidate for President of the United States. I could say that I saw it coming, and I wouldn’t be completely lying, but there was a part of me that still, for some reason, had a bit of hope in humanity.
I, like many people, initially saw Trump’s campaign as a joke. One only has to look at him to see he isn’t the right man for President and then once he started spewing out policies it seemed there was NO WAY we would allow this creature to even get through the first stages of the campaign.
But then everyone around him dropped like flies.
Crowd favourite Bernie Sanders rose up like a wave only to come crashing down at the final hurdle in spite of the outrage over Hilary Clinton’s ‘illicit’ e-mails, of which Trump now considers her a criminal. But there stood Trump, only a few kilometres away, making blatantly racist, sexist comments and still insisting on putting up his damn wall. And Hilary’s meant to be a criminal! Huh?
Then the other Republican candidates decided to bail out, with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio retreating home like wounded soldiers.
What happened?
I don’t want to sound like a raving conspiracy theorist, but we have to look at money being involved in this. Trump has a lot of it. In fact, he has so much he’s been able to run for President (which seems to be a prerequisite for running for the presidency in the USA). The slow giving up to Trump and complete reversal of views towards him has happened so suddenly and without valid reason that there is either something wonderful about Trump we haven’t realised yet, or he simply has more money than we thought. And this slow conceding to Trump is not only happening amongst politicians. It’s spreading into the public as well, even here in Australia. People have started to believe that Trump will be a better president than Hilary. I, for one, can’t give in to this. Not yet. I still hold strongly by my stand; anyone but Trump.
ANYONE BUT TRUMP.
It’s true, if Trump is elected the worst that we will probably be subjected to is having to listen to this madman rave on with racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks for a few years. He will not build a wall. You cannot just go to the Mexican public, take their wallets, and then use PayPass to fund their prison. It just can’t happen. But if Trump is elected, one thing we are sure to see is a lack of progress.
He won’t build a wall, he won’t rid the world of terrorism, he won’t do ANYTHING. And that’s the problem. I am not going to say that Hilary Clinton will change the shape of America, but she will at least put forward some constructive ideas, whereas Trump will continue to hold ridiculous rallies and give sadistic speeches in a largely destructive manner. If this happens, all we can do is hold on tight. I won’t be coming out of my room for the next four years if this man is elected President, it just won’t be worth it. Trump will do nothing but make us very sad, very quickly. We cannot begin to rationalise Trump, we cannot begin to back him, we cannot give in. Not yet, or we’ll be in for a very inactive, very depressive four years, and some of us won’t be able to survive that long.
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