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I just want to say first, that I don't know how I would ever get to see articles like I used to when going on a reading binge via my now-dead laptop. I appreciate, so very much, your efforts to leave articles on this particular forum board. I can't peruse articles on the Web because it eats up what tiny bit of data plan I have. So, thank you, thank you, Miss Tick, and Anya, Allison, Andrea and everyone who participates on this forum thread.

Now, about that son of a buck ... Trump.

A few months ago, I was invited to attend what I thought was a business meeting, where other attendees were thought to be from the ranks of members on my work campus. I was thrilled at first. But once I was less than 10 minutes into this so-called business meeting, it became painfully clear that 99.99 percent attendees were Republican voters, which was financed by former Bush cronies and Trump-wannabees. I did all I could to remain as composed as could be, and found a way to excuse myself from what turned out to be a rally to incite right wing voters into further indoctrination into racialized political ways of thinking, voting, (ad naseum).

I could hardly believe the numbers of people attending this event at Memorial Coliseum. People who profess to live a Christian lifestyle AND in favor of guns AND in favor of doing all they can to maintain the 'all American' lifestyle of upscale status and all the trimmings of so-called privilege (fucking worst case of White Privilege I've seen in months, could hardly believe my eyes that night ).

Worse, a few weeks ago, a close friend, who's married and sponsors foster children, gives them a wonderful home, safe place to live, i learned that her husband totally supports the jingoistic horrors espoused by Trump. I had no idea about this until their foster son and I were in the car, waiting for my friend to come back from her shopping run. Her foster son disclosed to me in ordinary ways about how her husband was crazy for liking Trump, but that he was proud that my close friend thought Trump was a sociopath and if left unchecked, would ruin what's left of American society. Her foster son is only 15 years old. He's on the autism spectrum, a genius (if you ask me), but can totally see how Trump is the quintessential epitome of all that shouldn't even be considered American at all, but is by people who just apparently can't see how terribly fascist Trump is and will rule (and ruin) society with an iron fist, if not by iron foot too.

Each day that goes by, it worries me terribly that such egregious ways of thinking can even EXIST in this tiny blue dot of sanity .... where I currently live and think of as home. But my close friend's foster son was truly an inspiration to hear, that day.