by Maddie Banfield
Colorado Mesa University offers a club for Democrats. They meet Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in Escalante, room 301. During these meetings, students come together to get angry and to find peace. In the last meeting, many topics were brought to everyone’s attention. One question was, “How do we, as college Democrats, get heard?”
Creating violent riots and protests were certainly not what they were thinking, but maybe calling senators and representatives in Washington D.C. could be a more effective and peaceful way of getting heard. Others suggested reaching out to millennials and getting them to vote.
There were numerous people in their early 20s not voting because they felt their voice did not matter. Another idea was making colleges, especially CMU, more aware of the facts and not just opinions.
Mostly what college students see are opinions that people rant about on Facebook or Twitter. This club is all about uniting and becoming one team because there is not any other choice.
“I feel in a lot of ways Hillary [Clinton] more or less lost it [the election],” student Brandon Castle said. “She was not a very good candidate herself, but as far as I was concerned, she was better on certain policies than Donald Trump. Trump did win it in a sense that he was a good populist candidate. He was going to fight for the people, and he represented change.”
College Democrats are angry with the conclusion of the election, but they are also finding hope. They are open and willing to listen to the opposing sides of their beliefs.
College Democrats were supportive of the recent national movement, the Women’s March. The club members think it is awesome that people could come together for peace and not violence.
“I 100 percent support the Women’s March. I don’t really see a valid criticism of it. It was peaceful and nonviolent. It gets people energized, brings people together and it can lead to greater change,” student Sam Moreno said.
