I'm scared
When he announced his candidacy last year, I laughed. Stupid, waste of money, total joke, he'll never get anywhere. That's what I thought. I also thought he didn't even really mean it. It was just another PR stunt.
And then he started plucking off the other 17 thugs one by one.
I couldn't believe it.
Still, I assured myself, he was never going to clinch the nomination. He's done and said so much terrible and completely abhorrent stuff. I figured when he said McCain wasn't a war hero the thugs wouldn't tolerate it, especially from someone who took so many deferments.
Not only did they take it, they celebrated him.
And his numbers grew.
He plowed through the primary race like it was tissue paper, all while being rude, crude and divisive.
Now he's got these nuts screaming lock her up and one of his advisors is on record as saying she should be tried and set before a firing squad.
What
The
Hell?
These people are rabid. I'm seeing posts on Facebook by people I *thought* had brains and it makes me sick. They're so hardcore in their hate of her and their defense of him, it's unreal.
I can't imagine a country with him at the helm. What I can imagine is him getting us all fucking nuked pretty damn quick. This man is an unstable psychopathic liar and people are lining up to vote for him.
So yeah. I'm scared. It's like he's unstoppable. And I just don't get it.
On edit: I'm not trying to be doom and gloom at all. This post is down to the past three days and watching these people chant and applaud like lunatics. I'm really starting to fear how rabid they are. How violent. How blood thirsty.
He's bringing out the worst in people and it's scary as hell.
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Vanity Fair wrote about it in 1990, in this article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Look at the crowd in the arena. Does that look like America? No. The demographics of the GE electorate is profoundly different from the demographics of the GOP. He is completely stoppable because math. He gets like zero percentage of black voters in many swing states in many current polls. You can win some of those states with way less than a majority of blacks, but you cannot win with zero. Also, he scares the pee out of many moderate Republicans. They are not posting loud and proud on social media, but many will either vote for Clinton or stay home in November. Trust me. I know a few well enough that they confide in me.
So don't be scared (it's what the GOP wants!). It's good right now for Dems. We are winning. 
65 million votes to win the General Election across an electoral block of States that he has 0 chance of winning.
The Rethugs are inducing the Great Fear across the land. That's all they got.
And a voter ID law in Texas got struck down yesterday too, I believe. Haven't read the details yet, but I think it was invalidated based on Voting Rights Act. So all of that is pretty fluid right now. I would recommend worrying less about these laws and working more against them. There is still plenty of time on the clock 
"Fear this man, or he could win!"
If we sit at home, complacent or pissed off because our candidate didn't win - just know, the Trump voter will not be sitting at home.
"It's a movement!"
I would have supported Bernie if he were the nominee. I agree with much of what he says, but I just felt Hillary was more electable. It never dawned on me that a Democrat, no matter how Progressive, would allow Trump and his ilk to pick the next majority on the supreme court and be in charge of the codes to start a war to end all wars.
I do have to say, some, but not all, of the young people I have dealt with in the past 10 years have a really strong "me , me, me" streak. Very self absorbed. Of course every generation has them, but they are a large group and very vocal in this generation. To be willing to damage the country to make a point is ignorant at best.
I think we are both right. Thank you for supporting the nominee....
no other in my lifetime..and I have been voting as an Independent since 1968 - until 2008...when I changed to the Democratic Party - I saw how right the country was going and had to move further left, just to walk upright!!!!
We can do this - see you Monday night....for some positive messages and policies....and people...and have some fun - these dark days of hateful rhetoric are behind us..yes, there will be continued attacks..but we have pushed back on much worse over the course of the last 8 years..
Hopefully msm will turn the corner and do what is right for the American people and tell it like it is...love is stronger than hate - and there are more of us than of them - if dumpster gets more than 40% in Nov. I'll be very surprised....this is why we "get out the vote"...be well..
dark days - I don't have the depression or WW11 as a reference point - although I have read about those difficult times, and my Mom would tell us stories of having to ration gas and make sure the lights on at home could not be seen from the outside at night- they used blackout curtains,,she work for the signal corp during the war (WW11)- all hands on deck so to speak..and all men were drafted, with their draft papers indicating no end in sight using the term "indefinitely" (I have my dad's WW11 draft papers)
Siren towers were erected to warn of nuclear attack..they were tested periodically - my school bus ride went past a tower everyday - we were instructed to hide under our desks at school..the whole time our mom was our buffer..never showed fear..
I do believe this country has not forgotten the eight years of GWB and I would never minimize the threat this trump person demonstrates - the rhetoric of hate and fear is at an all time high...and we must remain ever vigilant - your emotions are spot on...but,
A very wise man FDR - said "we have nothing to fear except fear itself...."
Get out the vote is imperative - make sure you and your family are registered CORRECTLY, and you know your states voter ID laws - (such as they are)....friends, neighbors, this truly is a time for ALL of us to unite..the future of our country and countrymen and women depend on it....
I'm so glad you can turn to hubby with your concerns, that is very important - there are so many who are alone and in fear - those are the people we need to hear from and listen to....be well..
