By Bergan O’Connell
Executive Theme Editor
Among the voices chanting “not my president” at City Hall, junior Noah Geller was one of them.
Geller volunteered for Al Muratsuchi’s campaign for state assembly, which got him interested in politics. Muratsuchi’s campaign influenced Geller by giving him insight on what it’s like to be a politician. Geller says he would not feel so passionate about politics right now if it weren’t for the election of Donald Trump.
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“The walkout was about voicing our displeasure with the President-Elect,” Geller said.
Geller thinks it is the citizen’s responsibility to not be compliant in the future of our nation and try to take a stand for what we believe in, even if that “stand” won’t directly accomplish anything.
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“There were mixed opinions on the protest because my teachers thought it was very pointless to stomp your feet about an election that has already happened,” Geller said.
Geller hopes this election will bring the two parties together. While he is a liberal, he does not completely shut himself off from a conservative viewpoint and thinks that both sides can benefit from each other by working together, he said.
“I think that staging a protest near where we make our laws and run our local government says something about our desperation and how we are taking this seriously,” Geller said. “It makes the point a lot bolder, in my opinion.”
Geller was devastated when Trump won the electoral college, he said. Now Geller hopes to focus on the change that our nation is going to face with Trump’s new policies.
“I feel pretty strongly about this election, and I wanted to do my best to become part of the movement against it,” Geller said, “The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, and what they feel is right for our country is, undoubtedly, going to become more important over time. We need to be expressing our values so that we can start changing things now.”
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