When you scroll through social media, all you see is people on the left comparing Donald Trump to Hitler and calling him a fascist, while the right calls Kamala Harris an idiot and the anti-Christ.
How the heck did we get to this point?
As a first-time voter, I was 17 during the last presidential election, and I voted in local elections since turning 18. I am so concerned about why we have this tension. It appears that I am not the only one concerned about this.
As we move past election day, as this article comes out, Americans on both sides of the aisle are getting increasingly concerned about post-election violence along with efforts to overturn the election, according to AP.
The article states, “About 4 in 10 registered voters say they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ concerned about violent attempts to overturn the results after the November election. A similar share is worried about legal efforts to do so. And about 1 in 3 voters say they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ concerned about attempts by local or state election officials to stop the results from being finalized.”
Now, why would this be such an issue? We’re America; we have free and fair elections…right?
Ever since 2016, people have been calling into question our elections. It started after Donald Trump won the election, with Democrats saying that Russia interfered with the election, calling Trump an illegitimate president for the last eight years.
Then, in 2020, there was a raid on the Capital because of some suspicious votes turning up in key swing states overnight. The most common narrative of the events is that Trump called his supporters to storm the capital, but that is simply not true.
I also believed he called for violence, but when researching for this article, I watched the actual video. He called for people to “peacefully and patriotically make your voice heard.” How is this insight violence? Rudy Giuliani did incite violence by saying to have trial by combat.
Now we have the sitting President calling half of the country garbage and people of power fearmongering the masses. It used to be that Republicans would fearmonger, but now the sway has come to the Democratic side.
According to ABC, “More than two dozen states have indicated they would be willing to send National Guard troops to Washington if requested in the weeks following the presidential election and in the runup to the inauguration, Guard officials said Monday.” Washington D.C. is also putting up previsions in case of another thing like Jan. 6. The threat is real, and people are scared because there is so much venom on each side of the aisle.
Megyn Kelly spoke out against Trump back in 2016 because of a comment he made to her during an interview that they had during the Republican primary debate. She asked whether he had a presidential temperament, and later, he talked about her questions, saying, “There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
As she spoke at his final rally in Pennsylvania, the feud seemed to have gone away. She endorsed him for President and is showing how things can change when we communicate, even though many feminists were not happy about her endorsing him.
A person on X by the name of SomeofJess said, “As well as yourself, you’ve betrayed everyone you ever supported, many of whom stood up for you. You are a disgrace.” How can we come together as a nation if we cannot move on from things people have said in the past? We do not know what made her want to forgive him and what he said to make her forgive him.
Originally, I had this article ending differently. I hoped that we would know the results soon, and we found out on election night. Donald J. Trump is the 47th presidential candidate, and there is already tension across America.
Social media posts of people who just hours before were calling for peace and unity are now saying if you voted for Trump, you are no longer a friend. You have the media blaming everything but the fact that, seemingly, Harris was a weak candidate compared to Biden.
Data showed that she only did better than Biden in two small regions while majorly underperforming in most areas. What Biden had flipped blue was now back to red.
My take on it is this: People are tired of the economy and unable to afford their way of life. Her economic plan to tax more businesses would do the exact opposite of what they want. If you tax businesses more, then it costs them more to make the product, which hurts the consumer.
I also believe that people did not like the fact that she was put in and not voted in. Biden dropped out, and there should have been a primary; they could have gotten a much stronger candidate for their party, but instead chose a woman with a record of being very unpopular with moderate democrats and independents. They had someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who polled well with those key demographics, but chose not to and instead put in a VP who no one knew anything about.
She also relied a lot on celebrity endorsements. Recent polling has shown that celebrity endorsements do nothing but hurt a candidate. People say it makes them feel as if the rich are telling them how to vote because they’re too stupid to make the decision themselves. Social media went crazy with how packed her rallies were because of celebrities like Beyonce, but people left in droves after they were done speaking.
When the next election cycle comes around, I recommend to Democrats that you lower the celebrity endorsements, make sure you let your party vote for who they want, and focus on someone who is more moderate than progressive.
