Yes, the reference to Trump was deliberate. Whatever one's politics, he's seriously missing the necessary skills for a good politician.



And the amount of publicity spin that was necessary to sell him as somehow who would support the needs of everyday workers, instead of representing the gigantic rich firms that remove more and more of those worker's money and jobs and rights.... (I spit!)



At almost sixty years old, I've come to the melancholy understanding that we CAN'T all get along, ever; in every generation we give birth to gentle people, violent people, sharers and hoarders and raiders and those overly-generous martyrs who give away even what their own children need to survive. We give birth to people who focus on things, people who focus on tasks, people who focus on ideas, people who focus on other people (for good or bad) and all the rest, and there will never be a political system that's best for all of them.



In short, we CAN'T all be saints, by anyone's definition of saints, no matter what changes in politics and culture and family life. But--and I know this is an impossible goal--I just wish we could choose between candidates who told us who they really are, rather than professionally constructed artificial personas.



...Oops, sorry about the verbose rant here....



--Nonie