To those who say 2017 won’t change anything: You’re wrong.

2017 will change everything – whether it be for better or for worse – and I don’t think that the world is ready for what’s to come.

On January 20^th of this coming year, we will see ourselves under the leadership of a new president. Businessman, Donald Trump.

The businessman who wants to limit a woman’s reproductive rights. The businessman who condones violence. The businessman who brags about assaulting woman. And the businessman who is also racist, bigoted, egotistical, and altogether a bully towards everyone around him.

In 2017, we are going to be under the leadership of a man who has driven millions of people to tears because they are afraid for their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

If you believe that the induction of this unqualified man isn’t going to change anything, you’re sadly mistaken, and I’ll tell you why.

“The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to the sense regarding nukes” (Donald Trump tweeted this out on December 22^nd, 2016).

I’m sorry, the last time I checked, we have a large enough supply of nuclear weapons to take out the entire world more than once. So, explain to me, Donald – or anyone who somehow supports him – why we need to make our nuclear presence even bigger than it already is.

I repeat, we have a large enough supply of nuclear weapons to take out the ENTIRE WORLD more than once.

Are you all really that power hungry? Or do you just like to see things explode?

If dear old Donald has his way, we’ll be launched into a nuclear war, something that could cause mass chaos and destruction throughout the world.

No matter how liberal or conservative your views are, no one wishes to see their loved ones die in a nuclear war that was easily avoidable.

No one.

With Trump’s inauguration also comes his hopes to take away a woman’s reproductive rights. In an interview with CBN News, Trump explained why his views changed from Pro-Choice to Pro-Life.

His story revolves around one of his friends. This friend’s wife was pregnant with a baby, and at first, the friend was against having kids; he didn’t want the baby. But after his baby was born, he claimed the child was the apple of his eye, that it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.

This happens with parents, this is nothing negative, because parenting is a nerve-wracking and scary thing, and for some people, it takes seeing their daughter or son for all of it to sink in.

But Trump used this story as his excuse for being Pro-Life.

I can understand why his views changed. I can see how a story like that would change a person’s views, but let me show a counter argument.

And trust me, it’s a fairly simple one.

Donald Trump is NOT a woman. He will never have his reproductive rights diminished or limited, because he is not the one carrying the child.

I open my arms to anyone who wishes to tell me why a man has any say in what a woman does with her body. Because, as far as I’m concerned, the only people who can tell us what to do with our own bodies, is us.

I’m not going to make this argument long, I’m not going to bore all of you to death with an article that’s driven towards such a hard-pressed and overly shared topic.

But the thing is, I’ve been quiet on this issue for long enough.

Hearing people say that 2017 isn’t going to change anything, set me off.

Heads up, things are going to change. Lives are going to be lost, families are going to be torn apart, rights are going to be taken away, and hope will vanish into the fear that comes with the new year.

For once I’m not excited to face the new year, and if you say nothing is going to change . . .

You’re wrong.