One silver lining of Donald Trump’s nightmare presidency
Politics is a strange thing. When one is involved in it, everything can become immersed in partisan feelings. The fact that politics dictates how everyone lives, despite the fact that such a small portion of people even care to interact in such a political process, frightens me. Based on current data, there was a strong increase in the number of voters in the 2018 midterm election, but it is still not enough to overcome the gerrymandering imposed by Republicans concerned with ensuring a majority through small town politics.
When Republicans realized that the vast majority of Americans disagreed with their policies, they made a change in their strategy called REDMAP. This allowed them to illegally change state maps using gerrymandering, in an effort to increase their local and state legislation to overwhelmingly to appear more Republican, despite the fact that Democrats had equal or greater popularity with voters.
This attempt by Republicans has continued up through today. They continue to push their policies that hurt average Americans while only helping their wealthy donors. While politics have proven to do much hurt to the average person, there is still much that we can do.
The illegitimate presidency of Donald Trump has done so much to improve how people see politics. Prior to such a traitor, most people just assumed that leaders were out there, doing what’s best for our interests. Following this traitor, we now see that it’s not only up to the politicians, but also up to us.
I’m a ceramic engineer living in Central New York, avid sports fan but find myself more interested in politics lately.