Category / 2017 / We The People
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Engagement’s Hard. We Still Need It.
“True diversity is diversity of thought, not diversity of color. I don’t see color,” conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren argued during an interview with Trevor Noah in December 2016. Noah, the liberal host of The Daily Show, replied that “there is nothing wrong with seeing color; it’s how you treat color that’s more important.” This…
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Power Over Principle
If the founding fathers had witnessed the last twelve months of American politics, they would be rolling over in their graves. In the aftermath of the most turbulent election cycle in decades, Americans seem to have forgotten the most basic founding principles of the country. When the founding fathers gathered to craft the constitution, they…
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“We The People” Can Change
In 1932, 102,221 citizens of a certain nation voted for the Communist Party in their country’s presidential debate. In 1948, two governors of the same country’s administrative municipalities ran on a ticket of oppression and apartheid for the nation’s racial minority. They gained all of the electoral votes of four of their nation’s main divisions.…
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No, Donald Trump is Not a Constitutional Crisis
“Constitutional crisis” is quite possibly one of the most overused (and misused) phrases in political commentary. Recently, pundits predicting the end of the world as we know it have, for a broad assortment of reasons, taken to calling Donald Trump’s victory a constitutional crisis. These reasons include the apparent unconstitutionality of some of his policy…
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Our Undemocratic Democracy
As a junior in high school, I wrote an entire research paper on why the Electoral College was good for the American system of government. Back then, I believed that the Founding Fathers’ end goal of keeping a demagogue from gaining power in the U.S was a noble one, even if the distrust in democracy…
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Patriotism Trumps Politics
I hear something in Hebrew. I look back, confused, at the woman behind the counter. She switches languages and says, “Ah of course, you are American. How will you be paying?” I hand her my credit card and she responds, “thank you. So you are American. How do you feel about Trump?” This exchange was…
