Many people have been asking is Donald Trump going to be a good president. Trump is a business man and he is going to run this country financially. He does know what he’s doing in that area. As for the political ways, Trump is going to have trouble. A man that says he is going to build a wall dividing Mexico and America, is a crazy man. If he is that crazy, then you can bet that he will not think about it twice if it comes to pressing the red button. Trump believes that he would be able to create twenty-five million jobs for this country. And when he says this he wants to cut all the taxes on the rich and raise them for everyone else. How much further is he willing to go? What other outrageous ideas, or laws, or anything else you can think of will Trump come up with.

America's Election or the Worlds?

Even though to some it may seem like the presidential elections would only affect Americans, it in facts plays a huge part on how the world gets along. Within the past century, our American land has been hit with the horrible Pearl Harbor and then 9/11. And the only thing that ended up changing was the world order. The article American’s election or the Worlds? by Simon Kuper says: “Even if the Red Army had rolled across western Europe, life in Alabama or Ohio would have been almost undisturbed.” This is saying that when Donald Trump had launched his campaign he had to come up with some sort of made up foreign creature. Which was the Mexican rapist. Our president has the power to do one if three things. One, to help and protect the rest of the world. Two, to mess up everything. Three, just simply ignore and not care at all about the world.

For the past eight years, Barack Obama was trying to get rid of the global policeman’s baton. If Trump wins the election there is a very, very high chance that we could be isolated from the rest of the world. One other thing that is scary for foreign countries besides America being isolated from the world is American irresponsibility. In one poll for Donald, the Lincoln Leadership Initiative, 22% of his supporters believed that Donald would start a nuclear war.

Is Freedom of Speech a Weapon?

Is Freedom of Speech a Weapon?

Life at American colleges these days are viewed as campus hotbeds of narrow-mindedness for freedom of speech. However, there is a new report that questions that as well as warning of a different risk. The report by PEN America states: “a growing perception among young people that cries ‘free speech’ are too often used as a cudgel against them.” This report that is titled “And Campus for all: Diversity, Inclusion and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities” will go over a bunch of triggering topics. These topics are trigger warnings; microaggressions; safe places; and controversial campus speakers. This report also includes a very apparent difference of viewpoints between advocates and activists for free speech. This is because of a conversation that would dismiss a students’ demand for fairness and inclusion. 

This report warns us of the possibility that a new generation will rise and turn against free speech. Suzanne Nossel, the group’s executive director, says otherwise. She says that the report will end up promoting more diverse voices through different projects such as PEN’s annual World Voices Festival of International Literature. There was a poll that was taken last spring that showed most college students were in favor of free speech on campus in general. The only thing was that college students also favored some restrictions on “intentionally offensive” speech. “From an old-fashioned free-speech perspective, it strikes one as contradictory,” said Alberto Ibargüen, the chief executive of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a sponsor of the poll. This PEN report also ends up running its self into some contradictions. It looks at cases for and against requests of safe spaces, and the report looks at campaigns against so-called microaggressions. 

“It’s a very smart and thoughtful and avoids caricature. They are fully committed to robust, uninhibited speech. But they also recognize words matter,” said Jerry Kang. Jerry Kang is the vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a legal scholar who has studied implicit bias and was interviewed for the report. He said that he appreciated PEN’s efforts to understand the college students’ point of view. 

Presidential Debate

On the subject of money and making this economy better, Hillary Clinton thinks that it’s a good idea to create new jobs with rising incomes as well as raising the minimum wage for jobs. Hillary believes that creating an economy with debt free colleges and a tax system that would reward workers is the best way to go. She would also like to raise the taxes on the rich. Hillary says that with the here plan she would be able to create 10 million more jobs. And then continues on to say that Donald Trump will lose 3.5 million jobs in this country. On the other hand, Donald Trump says that he Would create 25 million jobs in this country. He says that Hillary doesn’t even have a plan on how to create more jobs and keep everyone happy. One thing that Hillary was happy about, was the installation of solar panels. She believes that it was one of the best investments that this country has made. Trump thinks that solar panels were the worst idea for the country. As for taxes, Trump wants to cut the taxes on the rich.

With all the criminal activities that have been happening both the candidates believe that stability should be restored between all the communities and the police force. To add on to that subject, Hillary also believes that there should be a better training for the police. Donald Trump says that he wants to restore law and order in this society. He wants to get rid of gangs, that he says are made of all illegal immigrants. Also during this debate, Trump was asked multiple times about what he thought about the police convicting someone based on racial profiling. If he thought, it was true or false. And continually he avoided a direct yes or no answer. The fact that he avoided it says that he was basically agreeing with the police.

Moving on to the subject of all the cyber-attacks and how to make America safer, Hillary had said that the things we should focus on are that Russia is the one that has been behind all the cyber-attacks. She also believes that we should just wipe out ISIS. No matter the costs. No matter the means. Hillary also made the statement that Donald Trump doesn’t care if any other countries have nuclear weapons. That he thinks its ok for them to have them.

What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?

What Religion Would Jesus Belong To?

The way people view religions today are completely different from what it used to be. The change has affected a lot of the major religions, such as Muslims, Buddhists, and the Christian faith. 

Most of the Christians changed and some stayed with the old ways. “Our religions often stand for the very opposite of what their founders stood for,” notes Brian D. McLaren, a former preacher. “No wonder more and more of us who are Christians by birth, by choice, or both find ourselves shaking our heads and asking, ‘What happened to Christianity?’” Most of the ideologies of Christianity have been reformed to fit what the people want. Even those that say they are a Christian are mainly following a lie. Atheists, as well as those who feel spiritual but don't identify with a religion, are starting to be known as apart of a secular group called the "nones". 

As of right now only one-half of the American Christians would be able to name at least four Gospels. About 41 percent would be able to tell you about Job. With all this, it is best belied to worry less about doctrines and worry more about actions. One big question that McLaren asks is: “Could Christians migrate from defining their faith as a system of beliefs to expressing it as a loving way of life?” The answer? Yes, a migration like this could take place, because religion can and does migrate. It would lead everyone away religious bureaucracy and back towards the original ways of the religion. 

Transgender Restroom Laws

One Friday Raleigh, N.C. a federal judge ruled that students and employees must be allowed to use restrooms matching their gender identity at the University of North Carolina. Then a U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder had temporarily blocked three plaintiffs that were called HB2 until it goes to trial. Schroeder’s final decision would be made after the trial.

                HB2 was then passed in march and it said that transgender people had to use the restroom that has to correspond to whatever sex is on their birth certificates. This would also exclude any antidiscrimination protections. North Carolina’s Republican leaders said that the law was passed because it would protect privacy and safety. They also said that it would be able to keep any guys out of the woman’s restrooms and prevent any hard that could come out of it All the transgender residents claimed that the restroom safety is protected by laws already and that the HB2 law is harmful and discriminatory.

                Later on, Schroeder said that the three plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their arguments that HB2 violates Title IX. Then again Schroeder says that the transgender residents have not shown that they are likely to win the argument that the HB2 goes against their constitutional equal rights protection. 

LGBT

One of the major conflicts of the LGBT is that you are either for or against the idea and that you cannot possibly be neutral. All those in the middle ground of the subject cannot avoid the subject. The question will always come back and then those that said that they were neutral would then finally face the fact and choose a side. There is also the matter of should all individuals classified under LGBT be treated equally. For the most part most of those that say LGBT is a bad thing are those that are following their beliefs from a religious view. The question there is, is that ok for all religious people shun the LGBT. Should there be a law that bans that kind of behaviour? 

Of course, politics have a major part on the view of the LGBT. In 2015 the Supreme Court's decision to allow gay marriage in all 50 states was an important decision. Also the fact that schools and other places have been disregarding all discrimination on the LGBT. In schools, there have been many cases of boys or girls saying that they are more comfortable being classified as their opposite sex. Therefore all gender and sexual discriminations are starting to be rejected by society. Even Donald Trump at one point was defending the LGBT and saying that it is ok to be like that. In a political view is Trump the best candidate to be president just because he is ok with people under the LGBT? If Hillary is elected, would she somehow influence the Supreme Court into passing a law saying that all those wanting to be classified as LGBT are not allowed to exist?

Once everyone, even all those hating or saying LGBT is ok under religious standpoints, has agreed to no discrimination against the LGBT, what changes are there to be done? The society today is what is keeping changes from happening. There is the matter of "if someone famous does something then we should all do the same thing", or, "is they don't like something or a certain group of people then so should we". How far will this society take and twist the standers of everything and everyone?