A march against Trump would be a 'hypocritical' act
I'M writing about the proposed march against President Trump. I would like to know what they are protesting about. If they are protesting about the travel ban and not letting in refugees that's all well and good, but let's not forget that when they wanted refugees to come over here, and Jersey for that matter, there was a massive outcry against it and it never happened. So that strikes me as hypocritical.
If it's to do with women's rights, again they have a point, but again you could argue that in many Muslim countries if a woman is raped she can be charged for it, homosexuality is usually punished by death, simply being an atheist can get you killed, women can still be stoned to death for adultery or flogged and the man gets away with it.
In some countries they aren't allowed to drive simply because of their sex, their dress is dictated by their culture with some groups covered from head to foot, they have a very limited say or none at all in how their countries are run and, to many Western eyes, they are treated no better than slaves.
So I'd rather be a woman in Trump's America than any of those.
Don't get me wrong, I think he's a joke as a president.
He is a bully, sexist, racist and an idiot, but unlike Muslim countries, eventually he will be gone, either after his term of office has ended or he does something so dire he gets impeached or forced to resign.
But at the moment 48% of Americans support the ban, 41% don't and 11% are don't knows, so he can claim he has the support of the voters, if not the judges who have temporally overturned it.
In four or eight years at the worst, he will be history but women from these places will still live life in exactly the same way, a way no Western woman would tolerate.
So are you marching about a travel ban and not accepting refugees? Even though we wouldn't have them ourselves.
Or the way he treats women? (which is awful) but nothing to what other countries do to theirs.
You may hate the man, but, like it or not, he's the leader of the so-called free world and no matter how many marches from well-meaning people around the world the only thing that will change the president of the United States is their own people, not ours or anybody else's, and that's the way it should be.
MARTIN BISHOP,
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