Bystanders! Donald Trump vows to "Make America Great Again.

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By Valerie Villamn Martnez

05/20/2016

am scared! That's the truth.

When Trump promises to "Make
America Great Again," we should
ask: Great for whom? Certainly
not for women, Americans of color,
LGBT communities, religious
minorities, or minorities in general. For
most Americans, the good old days
weren't actually that good, and the
"greatness" Trump talks about doesnt
exist. Diversity is what makes America
great and I couldnt agree more.
How can people actually follow
him and believe he can become
President? Whats the deal with all this
trashy political propaganda? I am not
good with History, but come

on! Women couldn't vote until 1920 or

own property until the 1970s, what?
White landowners owned and
enslaved blacks who were not only
ripped from their homes but routinely
beaten, raped, and resold away.
There's also the small detail that
American land was stolen from Native
Americans. Gay people couldn't
express their feelings openly like they
do now. The people who have the
capacity to change the future of their
Country shouldn't stay arms crossed
and do nothing. Its like when you
stare at someone who is drowning, and
do nothing when you really can do
something. Not voting for Trump in
the presidential elections on
November 2016 might be doing
something. Let's not be bystanders.
Lets take a brief look at Donald
Trump campaign. He wants to bring
unity to the Republican Party, and also
unify the United States. They are
obstacles for him to achieve that unity.
Like, 77 and 86 percent of Hispanics
and African Americans, respectively,
dislike Trump. An overall of 7 in 10
women see him as very unfavorable.
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He talks about a We that sways

people across the country making them
believe they are part of something big.
But when it comes to minorities he use
the term The or They which may
constitute a cultural and racial division.
We would make America great
againThe Hispanics have been so
incredible to me. They want jobsI
have a great relationship with the
blacks. D. Trump
Instead of unity, he clearly is
causing a disunion. As Trump gets
closer to presidency Latinos feel locked
out of the GOP (Grand Old
Party/Republican party). Even though
Latino republicans verbalize that they
wont vote for Trump, they certainly
wont vote for Hilary Clinton either.
There is an underperformance at polls
of Latinos representation. Latino
republicans are scared that Latinos may
leave the party. If something like this
ever happens one of the consequences
is that the immigration reform could be
pushed out of office. In order to avoid
that, Latino Republicans will focus
working down ballot in local
communities to elect mayors, county

Bystanders! Donald Trump vows to "Make America Great Again."

supervisors, school board members
who support Latinos.

knuckleheads in a crowd of thousands?

It's a non-issue, she said.

On the other hand, Donald

Trump abruptly cancelled a press
conference, even though a meeting was
still on, in order to announce his
endorsement by a coalition with black
religious leaders. His political tactic of
courting black pastors may suggest that
he does have some black support.
Because support among evangelicals
has been unexpectedly strong.
Historically black churches have been
conservative on social issues, even
though Trumps not much of a socialissues candidate. A SurveyUSA poll in
September 2015 showed Trump won 25
percent of the black vote. The best
support any Republican has done with
black voters was 17 percent, and that
was Gerald Ford in 1976. The pastor
Sheila Griffin reacted to a fight
involving an integrant of Black Lives
Matter at one of Trumps rally as: Oh
goodness. Donald Trump is not a
racist, that's just the press looking for a
story. What was it? A couple of

Furthermore, Hilary Clinton on

a town-hall event said that half of her
cabinet will be women. This statement
ignites a verbal exchange of a
demeaning propaganda coming from
Donald Trump. He said that Hilary is
using the woman card. At what
Hilary replied, if fighting for
women's health careand equal pay is
playing the woman card, then deal me
in. In order to recover from that
expression D. Trump stated that women
dont like Hilary Clinton and she
wouldnt be where she is without Bill
Clinton, and thats a vast overstatement
according to the author. Lets be
reminded that a 70 percent of women
have an unfavorable view of him.
American women say theyd bite the
bullet and vote for Clinton, if
necessary.
People often feel angry and let
down by their leaders, as well as by the
institutions that dominate their lives:
political parties, government
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bureaucracy, and corporations. Yet the

cause of this malaise is not being
addressed by politicians. Definitely not
on this election campaigns, as I see it. I
have been told that one of the ways an
authority figure can move masses is by
convincing them that the past was
great. Its very strategic, because the
majority of us have never lived in the
past to say if it really was great or not,
and we also dont question it. Perhaps
this is where ignorance lies.
Much of our daily experiences:
from the food we eat, to the
governments we elect, to the economy
on which our wealth depends, to the
way we care for our health and wellbeing, has become too big, too
bureaucratic, and too distant from the
human scale. We need to be more
human, aimed at the root that cause our
problems rather than just the
symptoms. We need to transform our
society to make it more suited to the
way we want to live our lives today. To
make us more human. Its not about not
voting at all, is about making a wise
choice. Let's not be bystanders.