With the election wrapped up, students at Weber State University wasted no time in expressing their opinions on the results.
On Nov. 15, the College Democrats at Weber State University club held an anti-Trump, pro-freedom protest in the Shepherd Union from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The club set up tables in front of the Wildcat Lanes and Games to encourage conversations and held signs expressing their thoughts on the election.
Throughout the protest, students with all kinds of different beliefs held civil conversations with the College Democrats. Although campus police were on standby, the protest remained peaceful and never got out of hand.
“We’re doing this protest so that we can spread the word and try to make it so we can mitigate the harm of the Trump presidency, not just from us talking and advocating, but we’re going to channel this energy into political power,” Ethan Bishop, president of the College Democrats stated. “We have 2 years until the midterm, 4 years until the next presidential election, and we’re starting right now.”
Members of the College Democrats at Weber State continued to affirm their intentions behind the protest was to not only educate people on their beliefs, but to better understand the beliefs of those with different ideologies.
“We’re not rioting, we’re not in the street arguing, we’re not in the street fighting anyone, we’re peacefully trying to educate people,” Tessie Violet, a member of the College Democrats, said. “We’re not pushing our agenda, but we’re trying to understand what other people’s agendas are, and why they voted for Trump.”
Although willing to hear other people out, Violet claims a major goal within the protest was to educate those with opposing views.
“The whole reason we are trying to educate people is because when you are not given the correct education, when you aren’t given unbiased information, you’re going to be in the cycle of being fed misinformation,” Violet stated.
Just a few weeks after election day, students at Weber have already begun utilizing their first amendment rights. The College Democrats at Weber State thought that the conversations between students were surely worthwhile.
Silent Majority Member • Nov 19, 2024 at 12:55 pm
If they want to know why we voted for Trump, all they need to do is contrast the price of groceries, gas, rent, the housing market, and the state of the world in terms of foreign conflict between Trump’s first term and Biden/Harris’s first term. We spent 4 years being run over roughshod by an out of control administration that drove up the cost of fuel and consumer goods while increasing the tax load on regular Americans. Biden/Harris had no real tangible plan to lower the cost of living and reduce out of control government spending that ends up filtering down the average person’s bank account. I am very sorry that Trump doesn’t say things the nicest way he could. That does not mean that he is wrong on the core issues that most people care about.
When it comes to information, there is no outlet in the current media sphere that does not have either a right or left bias. Everyone has a bias, you have to look for the people who are honest about their biases. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Violet gets their news and information from almost exclusively left-leaning sources, so it comes across as disingenuous for them to claim that they are trying to correctly educate people and prevent misinformation. If they truly and genuinely wanted to know why people voted for Trump, they should listen to people like Brett Cooper, Tucker Carlson, Tim Pool, and Steven Crowder with an open mind and sincerely take their messages to heart. Catering to someone’s perceived victimhood hierarchy status doesn’t make our country stronger. It doesn’t lower taxes for the common man (using that as a general term, don’t jump down my throat). All that does is give unelected bureaucrats more power and wealth at the expense of the average working-class family, like those in Palestine, Ohio and Appalachia that got left behind by the federal government when they needed help the most. We The People are tired of everything being about race/gender/sexuality/privilege/class/etc. and we want our country to prioritize the well-being of Americans first and foremost before we send billions overseas to be embezzled in foreign conflicts we have no business involving ourselves in. I don’t need you to “educate” me, Violet. I need you to stop figuratively throwing yourself down in the middle of the road and blocking the progress our nation is making towards being great again. Maybe look outside the fearmongering you’ve been inundated with by MSNBC, CNN, and TYT and take a look at what the actual platform of the MAGA movement is.
Skinny Pete • Nov 19, 2024 at 8:19 am
If they want to know why people voted for Trump, all they need to do is to take a critical look at their own candidate. Nearly zero policy that she ran on other than “Trump bad” or racist/sexist/phobic, refuse to answer questions to the press, endless and meaningless word salad. The American people are tired the divisive messages like America bad, minority means oppressed, white man evil, boys can be girls and girls can be boys, Nazis bad but antisemitism good.
I don’t know how anyone who considers themselves introspective can’t take a serious look at the democratic party today and not understand why the majority of the American voting public finally turned out and said ‘No more’.