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BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE ACTUALLY VOTING FOR HIM
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No one has voted for him actually.
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I don't feel safe in my own country. Sure, I'm white, and law abiding, but I'm also transgender, bisexual, and we've just barely gotten gay rights. And think of all the LGBT murders in the US alone. I can't feel safe being myself knowing that they're doing little to nothing to stop hate crimes here. What if a republican gets voted in? And all of us minorities get our rights taken away because of right wing views? I'm no Christian, I don't believe in god, I've already been kicked out of a Christian school because I'm transgender, and no republican will be on my side. How can I be happy with these things alone happening here.
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Right now it is becoming increasingly unlikely for a republican to get elected, with the rising minority population in the US. Not only that but with the way things are going it is becoming less likely for you to lose rights, the president doesn't have nearly as much power as people make out. If someone like Trump got elected he would quickly realize he can't do any of the stuff he is talking so loudly about. If I were you I would worry more about who is representing you in congress.
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Basically you have to be lucky to have a decent life here. Unless you have rich parents that pay for your college, you're screwed. Sure there's scholarships, but some of us aren't so great at getting those. It sucks that you basically have to have a degree to be able to get paid enough to live here. You can be extremely good at something that you taught yourself all on your own throughout years of practice and you wouldn't get squat for it since you don't have the degree to prove that you know what you'r doing. So you're choices are to either get a loan and be in debt the rest of your life, or struggle with bills and owning nice things due to the fact that you don't get paid enough because you don't have a degree. Either way, you're struggling unless you're just born into a rich family.
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A few of my problems with this are
1. College isn't a right, you don't need to go and you can do well without going. My high school had mandatory senior advisement classes that taught kids about opportunities outside of University, which I think all public schools should be doing.
2. "Sure there's scholarships, but some of us aren't so great at getting those.", coming from someone who probably spent most of their highschool career working for an online game and making art, that isn't really surprising. Not judging or anything, because your work obviously paid off in that respect, but if you are focussing on working towards scholarships, you're probably gonna end up with them.
Other than that I totally agree with you.
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Not to mention if you get hurt somehow and your insurance doesn't cover something, the hospital bills put you in debt. You can never be too sure of something like that happening.
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I tried explaining this to my dad when I went to see him for Thanksgiving and it drives me insane that he couldn't understand this. Can't understand how wanting to be able to go to the doctor without suffering crippling debt is some form of laziness or entitlement.