This week schools across America staged walkouts to protest gun violence. As with everything these days, people and the media began drawing political lines. Most people support the right of students to express their anger over the proliferation of gun violence in schools. However, others criticized the walkout as nothing more than insubordination and poor political theater. The fact is no matter where you stand politically, peaceful protest is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. In the sixties when Martin Luther King, Jr. staged marches to draw attention to civil rights, there were those who thought he should be incarcerated for stirring up trouble. Today, we erect monuments in his honor. Whether or not they are successful in the change they are seeking, the young students from Florida who organized the walkout gave their peers from across America a powerful lesson on how a movement is made.
Never in U.S. history have we had two older or less popular candidates running for president of the United States than we do today. We repeatedly hear the question, “How can these two candidates be the best our country has to offer?”.
if you are primarily fearful of living in a society that is racist and discriminatory, you should be very concerned with what is happening with the political far left. If your primary fear is moving our society towards socialism and communism, then you should be mostly fearful of the political far right. That statement may seem counterintuitive, but it is absolutely true.
People on the political right believe that people on the extreme left are the biggest problems in our nation. People on the political left think that people on the extreme right pose the biggest threat. This is one occasion when both sides are correct.