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Let me preface this by saying one thing, this is NOT a post trashing witchcraft/paganism. If you looked at my blog you would see that I am a Wiccan witch. This post is also not hating on feminism, I am an intersectional feminist. Just thought I would add this in since I know some people will look for any reason to support or disregard their toxic ideologies.

Dear mister president

You had to have known

That this virus would come to our home.

You have access to information

That we do not have

Yet you didn’t act quick enough;

And you blame it on the Chinese.

You said with no evidence

That this was man made;

What a convenience!

If this were man made,

We’d have a cure

But instead we have doctors and nurses

Who are scrambling to help us.

Dear mister president,

You had to have known.

President Obama stated this virus existed

Around five years ago.

Now we have 113,303 deaths

And 3.01 million cases confirmed;

Dear mister president,

Why did you wait?

My mother works in health care,

And she was aware

That something was wrong;

But you basically turned a blind eye

I always find it funny that when I’m talking to adults and they make a political joke and I give an educated response on current politics, I’m always asked: “How do you know that?” or I’m told: “You’re too young for politics”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not that heavily invested in politics, but I generally do know what is happening (and I can be very opinionated at times).

Now that I’ve told you about myself, let me give you some information in a way you might not have thought about it before:

The majority of current high school students will be able to vote in the next presidential election

When I was in 8th grade and the 2016 election was really starting to become a big deal, I was fortunate enough to be taking US history with one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. She was very interested in using the current election to prepare us for the next one and managed to keep her own political views to herself (except once when I ate lunch with her and she talked about how she would like to have a conversation with Trump, but that’s a story for another time).

But that received a lot of backlash from parents. When she assigned us to watch the debates and answer some analysis questions as homework, several kids came back with blank pages and my teacher got several strongly worded emails saying that they didn’t want her teaching their children about politics, she should be teaching about history.

But here’s the thing: that is now history, Yes, it’s still very current, but all the things that happened two years ago are no longer history. And everything we were learning about the election was tied to the things we learned about on the historical side too. Donald Trump said Ted Cruz couldn’t be president because he was born in Canada? She taught about the qualifications of being a president. Gun control was being debated? We learned about the second amendment, and why the laws were made the way they were. She taught the value of checking your source, and about how everyone has a right to their opinion witch, though can be questioned, should also be respected.