Thinly or otherwise.

The man is a monster, and everything he believes in is an obscenity. Well, everything he CLAIMS to believe. I don't think he has any other motives but self-aggrandizement and personal profit and power. We have been documenting his crimes here since he first started running for office. You choose not to believe it, and there is nothing we can do about that, but that's just the way it is.

Trump and his policies are a threat to me, my health, my dignity, my prosperity and my freedom. And he has used hate, fear and lies to stir up the ignorant, the fearful and the hateful because he and his followers will benefit from his programs and policies. Or they think they will.

Trump and his party favor the bosses over the workers. The corporations over the people.

They are devoted to dismantling the social safety net.

They wish to build a society where only the wealthy will be able to access the benefits of the society.

They have no use for the protection of the worker, the consumer or the environment.

They are willing to exploit racial, religious and ethnic differences to divide the people against themselves.

They are prepared to manipulate and pervert political campaigns and constitutional protections
to further their own agenda.

They are determined to cut taxes, but not deficits.

They are willing to sell the country out to foreign powers to secure their political power and economic control.

They lie, and their followers not only tolerate it, but they collude in the deception because they think they will get a piece of the action in return.

These people are not interested in the long-term welfare of the nation, or even of the world. All they want to do is continue profiting from the chaos.

So maybe they won't actually gas the Liberals, round up the Mexicans, or burn all the Mosques. But somehow, that does not reassure me one bit.

As for me, I have nothing to gain from their program. I do not own a business, or employ workers, foreign or domestic. I am not a religious fanatic or moral hypocrite. I am not a jingoistic super-patriot or nativist. I am not a racist or an entrepreneurial fantasist. I am not afraid my daughter will sleep with a black guy or that my son will turn out gay. And I have absolutely nothing against foreigners, in fact, my grandparents were foreigners and I am fiercely proud of it. I am proud, not ashamed, of my intellectual achievements and educational credentials and I enjoy hanging out with people like me. I prefer the company of scientists and artists to that of businessmen and athletes. That's why I come here to the Zone, although if the GOP wins the mid-terms you can color my ass gone; I fear your people will start a systematic purge of everyone who disagrees with you or might threaten your power. Yeah, that's right. You don't need violence to persecute people, but I am physically afraid of the Trumpers. I was born and raised in the South. I know what these people are capable of.

Most of all, I have done very well in this country, and those things which America gave me that allowed me to prosper and progress are now threatened, even despised by Trump and his followers. Although at my age, I doubt if I will survive long enough to see the mess that American Conservatism is doing to the world and the planet, I am enough of a patriot to despise what this morally bankrupt, spiritually desolate and intellectually barren philosophy is doing to both.