DEAR MR.
TRUMP….PLEASE READ THIS!!
Selfie from the Tokyo Dome Hotel :)
My baby looking out the window at our hotel in Tokyo! 35th floor.
As I write these
words I am on a plane, flying over Russia. My husband, baby and I just had
a trip of a life-time. We went to Japan.
Now we are headed back to Europe.
It is just days before the big United-States election. This past year has been an intense
roller-coaster ride for everyone on planet earth—especially Americans. If there
is one fact that I can make about this election and about the status of
America, it would be that America and
Americans are MORE DIVIDED than ever before. Everything from racial and
cultural divisions to ideological, religious and political tensions are
increasingly rife among Americans. This is undeniable—(unless you are one to
maintain a homogenous group of friends and intolerant to diverse political
views.) I reflect upon my conversations
with people, to watching videos on YouTube to scrolling through my facebook
feed, talking to people in other countries and on airplanes, people disagree
with each other! There is a branching between two (maybe three) camps.
I believe Donald
Trump is going to win this election. I’ve thought this since the beginning
of the election but I wanted to make my formal declaration now, before the election.
I’ve actually thought this from the very beginning when there was a truckload
of Republicans running for the nominee. I knew that Trump would win the
nominee. I even had a big argument with one of my more liberal Christian female
friends. We made a bet. We both agreed
(back in August 2015) that Clinton would be the Democratic nominee but she
thought Marco Rubio would be the Republican nominee and I said it was going to
be Donald Trump. She and her sister both mocked me for my prediction. I
further suggested that trump would be the next US president. I have not
retreated from my initial position.
I think Trump will
win this election. The American populace is looking for a change. We are
looking for improvement in the political sphere but also in the economic one.
More and more Americans are out of work. If Trump can be trusted, it appears
that he wants to improve the job situation for Americans. He has also taken a strong stance on immigration—something that hasn’t
been discussed very much from US presidential candidates for a long time.
Trump has suggested that immigration is a big issue for
America and that it impacts Americans—especially American citizens who are part
of the poor and middle class. The reason
why so many people want to move to America in the first place is precisely because of the comparatively
better job/career/education opportunities than in their own countries. However,
in the past decade, jobs and working opportunities are harder and harder to
find, even for American citizens. More and more millennials are living with
their parents well into their 20’s and even 30’s. Something is going wrong
here.
To claim that current immigration patterns have no net effects on
American citizens—when jobs and resources are in finite supply—needs to be
proven. The one making the claim
needs to offer the evidence for the claim.
After recently spending some time in Japan, I am amazed at
how pro-Japanese it is. I wouldn’t call
this country “racist” or “xenophobic”—I would simply call it “Pro-Japanese”. Japan
is a rich, successful, organized country. I told my husband that in the rank of
countries, I would call it “superior” to America on several fronts—its low crime rate being a major one. Our tour guides informed us that Japan is very
difficult to immigrate to; it allowed 11
immigrants entry last year. Is Japan
xenophobic? Use whatever words you want to suit your biases (because we are all
biased) but I’m going to stick with “Pro-Japanese”.
Trump has touched upon a similar notion in America. I don’t think Trump’s immigration policy
will be anywhere as extreme as Japan’s but it could be an improvement to what
currently exists.
America DOES need to
be more selective in its immigration and travel policies. I still have
vivid memories of being unable to enter Nigeria because I didn’t have the
proper documentation. The guards at the border of Benin/Nigeria would not allow
me entry—without a smidgeon of hesitation they sent me back to Cotonou, Benin
while my travel party made their way to Lagos. Were the Nigerian guards just racist…because I was White? Well, I guess
that is a possibility. After all, I was the white person and Nigeria is
full of Africans. The other possibility is that they were just following the
laws of their country and they weren’t acting upon racist impulses. I will let
you be the judge.
Trump has tapped into
a line of thinking that has been suppressed in the collective American
subconscious for decades: Isn’t it Americans citizens, in aggregate, who should
be the priority of the American government? Why should we vote for officials
who institute polices that give recent immigrants from Third World countries the
benefits of affirmative action (in both
employment and education opportunities) over American natives whose
parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents have been
paying taxes into the system? We need a system that works for American
citizens—not for American elites who use a globalist system to stay in power at
the expense of the rest of us.
Trump is no where near perfect but he will be an improvement
to the system that currently exists. Don’t get me wrong. Trump SHOULD BE
PRO-IMMIGRANT (of any ethnic background), provided they bring job opportunities
to American citizens and benefit America.
