The Campaign Against Correctness

For the record, I don’t despise Donald Trump nor his image. I despise the ideology his image stands for. That this man represents the ideology of a large population of the people of the United States is what frightens me. Frightening how economically oppressed, hard working individuals buy into a party that promotes the inebriation of the ‘American Dream’. They believe this man will lead them to better circumstances. These people ignore that while we don’t all have to thrive economically under the standards of capitalism, we don’t have to suffer and sacrifice our lives for a more just society. These opinions, embodied in Trump’s image, are self-pleasuring, egotistic notions of opportunity. These opinions are the problem with this great nation.

“He doesn’t care what anybody thinks, and that’s why I like him,” say many Trump supporters nationwide. I apologize that political correctness is an inconvenience to them– that when an aggressive prejudice or opinion is expressed, they feel discomfort as they’re quickly corrected in an open forum. However logically, political correctness in its nature operates democratically (party affiliation removed). The standards of political correctness are constantly evolving socially and communicatively and decided by collective whole. If political correctness is your problem, Democracy is your problem.

This oversensitivity to political correctness as a system is due an inability to logically process that when an opinion is spoken to a larger audience, you run a higher likelihood that someone will disagree and refute. Stop cowering from refutation; In debate comes education, perspective, and understanding. Accept the temporary discomfort of debate and find comfort in your growth of knowledge and communication. There’s no need to find disappointment when the audience you believe was obliged to listen and follow your word chooses not to follow under your leadership. Ultimately this isn’t about you– this is about the future of a nation I believe to have the potential of greatness.

The ‘American Dream’ to me encapsulates that hope, freedom, and equality in opportunity for all. In the end and in the now, it’s not about me and it’s not about you. It’s about us and what we can achieve together.

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