Why the Bad Guy Winning Isn’t Always the End of the World
I did not want Donald Trump to become President of the United States.
I did not want the Patriots to win the Super Bowl.
But I see the value in what these things bring to the world.
If Trump isn’t a bigot, then I really don’t know the definition of the word. His travel ban, denying global warning, taking funding away from scientific research, misogyny and all around asshole tendencies lead me to believe he isn’t someone that I want to lead the country south of the one I reside in that also has nuclear weapons. But I’m a Canadian and I don’t really have a say in who Americans decide to lead their country — and based on Trump losing the popular vote, neither do they.
I see Trump as the wake up call the world needs. Since he’s been elected people have banded together more, we’ve spoken up more on inclusivity (Drake made an Instagram post about being inclusive towards Muslims, Aubrey Drake Graham, a socially aware Instagram caption from this guy happens once in a blue moon) and issues like climate change and scientific literacy are becoming much louder conversations in the room.
Trump symbolizes all of the ignorance in the world and a majority of us are up in arms and angry about it. This is what we need, to be angry. We don’t get angry enough, we don’t militarize. We didn’t hold pro-athletes accountable for their political views, but now we do.
On Super Bowl Sunday, we all joined hands to collectively wish the worst on the New England Patriots. Most of us aren’t football fans (I’m not and I know damn well a lot of you only watch the Super Bowl). I’ve never seen so many people collectively wish the worst on a man. The football community hated Brady for having too many championships, being too smug, getting too much credit and just look at him — he’s hard not to hate. But now the rest of us hate him because he really had to get a Make America Great Again hat. He had to be a Trump supporter. And now we all realized that the Patriots mascot isn’t the proudest part of US history.
But we all got together and realized how wrong it is. We all got together to go against evil.
I don’t believe in heroes (Lebron James is the closest thing I’ve seen), but I know damn well there are villains. I’m glad we can all get together and face the villainy in the world.
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— Kyle
