With an increase in anti-institutional practices, anti-immigration, and anti-welfare tendencies becoming progressively more apparent throughout our current United States, potential orders appear very attractive to many right-wing US leaders and citizens alike. With this being said, the decline of the Democratic Party in US politics, highlights the shortcomings of our American democratic ideals and our nation’s recognizable bow down to radicalized ideals of conservatism. In this essay I will unravel some of the preeminent fashions in which the United States is falling short of its democratic ideals utilizing current examples of anti-institution and anti-immigration in our United States.
Ideals of the democrats dispute the structures that …show more content…
Democratic ideals highlight that today’s immigrants are tomorrow’s United States citizens with occupations such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, soldiers, and above all pillars of American communities. Regardless of these democratic ideals, a Trump presidency has told us something very different. As one of his first orders of business in January the US President imposed a 90-day ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States including the countries of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Ruled unconstitutional by a Washington judge, the ban was lifted by the courts, yet Mr. Trump issued a new ban that removed Iraq from the list of countries affected by the travel ban. This act presenting a primary example of blunt anti-immigration tactics reveals one of the many examples of how America is falling short of its democratic ideals.
Democratic ideals pushed aside, the United States is in a current state where institutions and the social equality of immigrants is insignificant and irrelevant to the individuals of this country who have visibly more conservative …show more content…
This is the reality that individuals occasionally act contrary to their basic interests to uphold their political status. (Lukes,2007) With this said, the third dimension is the set of ways in which the powerful transformed the powerless without constraint by potentially creating a false consciousness. When it comes to the Affordable Care Act the Democrats ideals have been able to convince individuals who were already covered under insurance that they needed an expansion of government to provide health care for the greater good of the population. And when it comes to the Republicans it is apparent that the Republican ideals have a way of convincing less wealthy Republicans who may not be covered by their work insurance under the impression that they do not need the Affordable Care Act to take care of their health but rather individual techniques of becoming
Ideals of the democrats dispute the structures that …show more content…
Democratic ideals highlight that today’s immigrants are tomorrow’s United States citizens with occupations such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, soldiers, and above all pillars of American communities. Regardless of these democratic ideals, a Trump presidency has told us something very different. As one of his first orders of business in January the US President imposed a 90-day ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States including the countries of Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Ruled unconstitutional by a Washington judge, the ban was lifted by the courts, yet Mr. Trump issued a new ban that removed Iraq from the list of countries affected by the travel ban. This act presenting a primary example of blunt anti-immigration tactics reveals one of the many examples of how America is falling short of its democratic ideals.
Democratic ideals pushed aside, the United States is in a current state where institutions and the social equality of immigrants is insignificant and irrelevant to the individuals of this country who have visibly more conservative …show more content…
This is the reality that individuals occasionally act contrary to their basic interests to uphold their political status. (Lukes,2007) With this said, the third dimension is the set of ways in which the powerful transformed the powerless without constraint by potentially creating a false consciousness. When it comes to the Affordable Care Act the Democrats ideals have been able to convince individuals who were already covered under insurance that they needed an expansion of government to provide health care for the greater good of the population. And when it comes to the Republicans it is apparent that the Republican ideals have a way of convincing less wealthy Republicans who may not be covered by their work insurance under the impression that they do not need the Affordable Care Act to take care of their health but rather individual techniques of becoming