“This is something that will define our lives for the next four years – potentially for the next eight years. That’s why people are a little bit like ‘but now what?’ after this loss. That’s why a lot of students still are in a little bit of shock.” said Alian Collazo.
The vice chair of the College of Republicans takes precautions to protect herself from violence based on her political alignment. For Cristina Perez, her support for presidential candidate Donald Trump has been something she’s tried to keep to herself.
As President Barack Obama’s term is reaching its end, he’s taking the time to campaign for Hillary Clinton. On Thursday, Nov. 3 the president paid a visit to the University’s Modesto Maidique Campus.
For a man like Maidique who sat at the head of our University for 23 years ― a university which prides itself in its large minority enrollment and community ― there seems to be a disconnect from the young faces who fit the profiles of the minorities Trump has unfailingly berated.
If Americans do not want to be fixed on just two major candidates and parties, the time is now to start making progress toward putting more focus on the multi-party system that we are lucky enough to have.
I’m all for a splintered right with many parties representing many different aspects of the current body, but only with the same happening with the left. A diverse range of electable candidates would make US politics a much more reasonable place.
