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What can I actually DO about Trump?

55 replies

FusionChefGeoff · 30/01/2017 08:36

I feel as if I am living in a parallel universe. My incredibly naieve hopes that it was all campaign hyperbole and his excesses would be curbed by advisors / the senate have been trashed and here seems to be no limit to what he can / will do next.

With 2 young kids and a freelance job which bills on hours worked, I'm time poor but desperate to do something rather than sit back, shaking my head sadly whilst the free world slowly goes down the toilet.

But I am clueless (see above) about the machinations of politics and what is a good route to effective protest seeing as it's not my country.

Any point writing to my MP? Any petition signing likely to do anything?? Any particular action / campaign groups I could get in touch / involved with?

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throwingpebbles · 30/01/2017 08:55

with all the respect in the world spartacus - he is.

I have lots of close family living there who are from an ethnic minority. This is not a distant problem to me.

And even if it were; to be silent is to be complicit.

Plus when our PM goes straight over there to meet him, it is very much our problem

JerryFerry · 30/01/2017 08:51

The Gandhi thing, be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Be generous, kind, conciliatory, patient, tolerant. And keep talking. Peace would be more widely spread if tolerant people were as organised as haters.

ExitPursuedBySpartacus · 30/01/2017 08:44

With the best will in the world, he is not really our problem to deal with. There are lots of leaders of countries of whom I disapprove, although granted none have as much power as Trump.

Watch and wait.

throwingpebbles · 30/01/2017 08:43

Following. These thoughts are going round in my head constantly at the moment - what can I do?

Cakingbad · 30/01/2017 08:41

You can model good behaviour in your daily life. If you're a non moslem, you can be courteous and friendly to moslems on the school run. You can remind your kids to be the same. You can write to your MP asking them to speak out against Trump.