With the presidential primaries coming up in just a few months, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton maintains significant leads in many polls. If Clinton becomes president, America will face challenges in three key areas.
The first area is gun control. I've yet to meet someone without an opinion on the matter. Whether it there are increased restrictions on the types of firearms permitted, reduced access to guns, increased difficulty in acquiring permitted weapons or some other variant of these, Hillary Clinton has been a strong advocate of gun-control during her career. According to Huffingtonpost, she "named the NRA as one of her top enemies because of the group's efforts to block gun control legislation, despite the growing number of mass shootings." In her own words, "'This has gone on too long and it's time the entire country stood up against the NRA. The majority of our country supports background checks, and even the majority of gun owners do.'" Whether or not your or I are in favor or against gun control, this will be one of the big issues America will likely face during a Hillary Clinton presidency.
The second challenge America will face is a growing socialistic movement. By this, I'm simply referring to the increased focus on social programs paid for by the government. Whether it's government sponsored health-care, increased spending on education or welfare, these are all things Democratic candidates have traditionally been supportive of. Detractors often describe this as "big government," and there's no denying that the more government supported programs there are, the larger the government bureaucracy becomes to administer these programs. Additionally, these types of agenda tend to require increased government spending, or, much to the horror of us common peons, increased taxes. Neither option is pleasant, but is still much more likely than the government reducing spending in the military, "pork barrel" legislation or international aid, regardless of Republican or Democratic control.
The final challenge to be addressed is extremism. Based on the last few presidents, both Democratic and Republican, typically Democrats lean more towards diplomatic solutions over military ones than do their Republican counterparts. And there is nothing wrong with that. Diplomacy is and always should be the first recourse to settling conflicts. However, when dealing with extremists, diplomacy tends to break down because diplomacy is based around the art of compromise. Extremists tend to refuse to compromise to the point one wonders whether they know what the word means. Have you ever tried debating with a Trump or Sanders supporter? It doesn't really work. The same thing goes for religious extremists, except they tend to be less rational. With the somewhat lackluster responses from the current Democratic government over ISIS, there is arguably cause for concern that continuous ineffective responses will continue. While words of condemnation may be spoken, and token military action may be taken, when a terrorist organization is trying to form their own country, partly in one America has supposedly "liberated," more effective action than a few bombing strikes or spec-ops forces should be used. Extremism, both foreign and domestic, societal and religious, will be a challenge America faces with a Clinton administration.
So what do you think are challenges America will face with a Clinton presidency? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below! Please keep comments polite.
