Hi, everyone and welcome to Learn Languages With Nina. My name is Nina and
Today i'm going to give you, my take on the current political situation in the United States and
Specifically what led up to where we are today.
In this episode
I will be using idioms and a variety of very specific terms
So if you are watching this to practice your English I suggest you fast forward to the end of the episode
where i talk, about the different terms and idioms that I'm using
I think, the origins of our current situation, goes all the way, back to the American Civil War
Which was a bloody, war that was fought between
1861 and 1865
and the issue that caused the Civil War was slavery. In essence the south or the
Confederate States wanted to expand slavery
Where as in the North they, wanted to support the Constitution and they deemed that slavery was unconstitutional
so a bloody, battle raged, and
The South, wanted to secede from the nation
Ever since then, the plight of the
African Americans has been at the forefront of what is going on in the country
In 2008 and again in 2012
Barack Obama, was elected the President and this is due in large part
to the grassroots operation of getting the African Americans out to vote and
Vote they did in astonishing numbers
In 2016 the US faced another election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Hillary, was by far the more experienced of the candidates and would have been adequately prepared to carry out the
Function of the president and being a diplomat
However a lot of people simply did not like Hillary and also the smear campaign against, her didn't help
She was coined as crooked hillary, by the other side and this, did great damage to her campaign
Much to everyone's surprise including his own, Trump won the presidency and
Political analysts are still trying to figure out how this happened and why. It is a very complex situation
That has its origins in the history of the United States. First of all it's important to note that
Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote
Most people did vote for Hillary
However she lost in the electoral college
Which is a very archaic
System that dates back to the early days of our country
Also, interesting to note is the gerrymandering
This is a hot topic of debate today in our country and this is where
District lines are redrawn in such a way as to favor certain candidates
Another reason i think that Trump won the presidency
Has to, do with the fact that, we had an
African American in the White House for eight years
There are people in this country, who are racists there are also
Misogynists and these people voted for Trump
There are also a lot of people, who are simply sick and tired of
politics and
Politicians and they wanted something, new, and they wanted something different, and Trump is
anti-diplomacy
he's anti-establishment and they thought that this could be a refreshing change
Once again I would like to say that these are my opinions
expressed in this video. You are welcome to agree with me
or disagree with me. Thank you so much for watching and I hope you tune in again
Learn Languages With Nina
and please stay tuned if you would like to hear
my explanations of some of the terminology and the idioms that I used in this episode
If you, say this is my take on something it means you're
Expressing your personal opinion it means how you see things and interpret things
At the beginning of the episode I said they deemed it unconstitutional
So this is what deemed, means they thought or estimated it to be
The South wanted to secede from the Nation they
wanted to separate from the Nation
a plight is a struggle
at the forefront means it is at the leading or most important position
a grassroots movement grows from the bottom up
Meaning that ordinary everyday people are getting involved
a smear campaign is used in politics to make an opponent look bad
and very often these are untrue remarks that are made
to coin an expression means that you make it up you invent it
if somebody is crooked it means they are a dishonest person
they are a criminal or a crook
if something is archaic it is very old
it's out of date
it's old-fashioned and it's antiquated
a misogynist dislikes or as strongly
Prejudiced against women
We use the expression sick and tired
to mean
We are very fed up with a situation: We're sick and tired of it
Thank you very much for tuning in to Learn Languages With Nina
Don't forget to watch Part 2 to find out more
about what's going on in the US today
and
Please visit, my website LearnLanguagesWithNina.com
to find more videos and to find out a lot more about me
Thanks, again, and see you next time
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