Introduction

I started this blog to present an honors project for my Public Service Ethics class. I chose to take the advice of my professor and write about something that makes me angry. This blog is going to be about the current presidential race and my focus will be on the topic that has upset me most over the course of the candidates’ campaigns, the GOP our lovely (sarcasm) republicans, more specifically Donald Trump and his antics. I haven’t always been interested in politics but I can safely say that because of the degree I am taking and the friends I have made here at ASU that my interest in politics has sparked. I found that although I was raised republican that I myself am liberal when it comes to most topics and as a result I have registered to vote without a party affiliation. As my political awareness has grown I have questioned most of the ideologies I was taught to believe because as I’ve become more educated they have proven to just not be true. This honors project gave me an opportunity to further my political awakening through a book titled Constructing the Political Spectacle which looks at how the things we think and believe to be true about our political system, the ideologies we value, who we believe to be good or bad, and so much more is all carefully fabricated mostly by the media but also the affiliations that we make and the people working behind the scenes for the politicians and their parties. I used this blog to express the harm that I feel the GOP candidates especially Trump can do to the country because of how outrageous their policies claims are.