This years election "an Embarrassment"

Much of this years election has been highlighted by the racially biased antics displayed by many of the Republican candidates specifically Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The chaos of this years election has caused many top officials to speak out against candidates saying this years election is a poor showing of the American Political system. Secretary of State John Kerry specifically was highlighted this week for commenting on the President race saying " It upsets peoples sense of equilibrium about our steadiness, about our reliability" the target of his opinion was the rhetoric behind Trump and Cruz's approach on how they would deal with Muslims in America and worldwide. Secretary Kerry talked about how many world leaders he meets with outside of the United States are bewildered by the support they see coming from American Citizens who wish to elect either Trump or Cruz.  Although Secretary Kerry may not have directly stated Trump or Cruz's name in his comments, it was very apparent his comments were alluding to the Republican candidates.





When you look at and listen to the things both men are saying about Muslims not only in America but globally its scary to think people support them. Time after time we hear supporters at rallies or conventions talk about how they want Muslims gone because they are our enemy and because they hate America. These same people have absolutely no idea whom they are talking about because Muslims come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The depiction they have of Muslims is what the media and other people have created which depicts a man with a long beard and carries an AK-47. This is not all Muslims and its honestly ludicrous to think this is how Muslims are viewed in America. Donald trump proposed banning Muslims from coming to the United States if he were to get elected. How to plan to carry this out? Banning people whom look like the media depicted Muslim? There are not all Muslims look the same so how would you plan to carry this policy out? The same with ted Cruz who talked about creating surveillance units and putting them in Muslims populated areas in America to monitor Muslims. That would infringe upon So many Americans basic human rights and would push people to want to join extremist groups solely because they government is abusing their basic human rights. There are well over a billion Muslims with about 1% actually being radical extremists. Do you really think monitoring Muslim Americans is going to do us any justice or get us results in the war on terror? Absolutely not because the Muslim Americans we have living here are as moderate as it gets, they separate themselves from the radicals because they know radical Islam in the form of extremism is insane. So why push the people to join something we fight day and night to stop?  

Sources
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/27/john-kerry-presidential-campaign-embarrassment-cruz-trump
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-defends-police-us-muslim-neighborhoods/