THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE USA IS DONALD
TRUMP
Régis Varão/¹
O texto a
seguir discute o resultado das eleições nos EUA. É de autoria de Roberta Varão
Wiediger, PhD, e está disponível em http://bethwiediger.blogspot.com/2016/11/our-true-color.html?m=1. O tema é relevante tendo em vista o
resultado surpreendente e as discussões que se originaram a partir da
divulgação do resultado, do erro cometido pelos principais institutos de
pesquisa dos EUA e no resto do mundo e do que esperar com a posse do
republicado Donald Trump a partir de janeiro do próximo ano.
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OUR TRUE COLOR
Roberta
Varao Wiediger/¹
And the new President of the United States of
America is Donald Trump!!!! That's it! That is who the country elected as the
new leader of this great nation.
However, I have never felt sick to my
stomach due to the outcome of an election before. This was the first
time I have ever voted in my life, the first time! You see, only 1 year
ago I became a US citizen, even though I have lived here for 20 years. I was
very excited to be able to exert my citizen duty and cast a vote. I thought
about how important, and sometimes forgotten, that women were not allowed to
vote until 1920. So, not only I, a woman, a new citizen of this great country,
would be voting for the first time, but I would also be voting for a
woman.
So I was a bit emotional when I went to cast
my vote, and afterwards I felt the need to go home and talk to my girls
about Susan B. Anthony. I then explained to my girls how important it was for
us to vote not just because Susan Anthony fought so hard to give us that voice,
but because as a citizen, you should take part in this important event.
Nobody is flawless, the two major candidates
were not perfect, because in reality, nobody is. No matter the outcome of
the election, some would be happy and some would not. That is what it is, you
can't please everyone. And I get this, I understand that, and I am telling
myself and my kids that we will be OK. We need to give Trump a chance to show
us all, that he can do good. I have to keep telling myself that, I have to,
otherwise there is no hope.
But I'm upset. I'm very upset, and I still
can't believe that this is real, because it just seems like a very bad joke.
What is upsetting to me is not even that Hillary Clinton did not win,
but the problem is that Trump was the one who won. Trump, an individual
who is the worst role model for our nation, and an individual who does things
that we should never do. Trump's behavior during the election, from his vulgar
tones to his mockery and cruelty towards others, set a very
perverse example of how to attain what you want. He showed the world, that
you can win by being arrogant, rude, under prepared and crude. He showed people
that money and power are more important than human decency. He showed us that
it is acceptable to grope and diminish women. But most importantly, he
showed us all that a large percentage of our citizens applaud these types of
behavior.
This election told us more about ourselves as
individuals than about Trump. This entire process shed light in the fact that
there is a lot more darkness in our country then we wish there was. Trump
winning showed us just how much hatred, misogyny and discrimination there
really are in the USA. Who knows, but maybe he did us all a favor
and got people to expose their true colors.
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