My first nightmare in fifty years.

[Akamai]

Half an hour ago my wife asked me if I was having a nightmare, and I woke and said I was. Parts of it are still very fresh -- faceless marauders pursuing me from room to room, unstoppable, implacable. I think it was caused by a reaction to the Trump campaign with its mindless, golem-like movement to the Presidency.

But if I am having a nightmare -- the first I can remember in fifty years -- what about the terrified Trump supporters who have been fed dreadful lies about Hillary and Democrats hour by hour, day by day, week by week, year by year by Rightwing spokespeople, FOX news, by every national Republican leader? What awful dreams inhabit their nighttime hours?

Further this treasonous venom has been repeated, echoed, amplified by the mainstream media with its lack of fact-checking of the pronouncements from Trump and right-wing Hillary-haters. (E.g., there is no moral equivalence between Trump and Hillary. W. Bush erased 22,000,000 emails with impunity.)

My wife woke me from my nightmare 45 minutes ago and we need the press to wake the country from the nightmare of Trump and from endless and destructive Republican lies.

[Divine Discontent]

1. Oh my. That's how bad Trump is, really.

And yeah, the level of conspiracy level craziness from them in my area is literally the worst I've ever seen in my life. They live and breathe his fears and anger. No wonder they behave the way they do, and yes, I'm sure they have nightmares...

Here's to better nights for you. We will beat him!

[llmart]

2. I understand completely.

I never watch TV news. I haven't had cable in years. But, this morning I decided to turn on NBC and the Today show was on and they led with how "it's a virtual tie", and blabbed on and on about health issues (good God, the woman can't even get sick without it being that she has one foot in the grave, never mind the stamina she showed during the witch hunt of the Benghazi hearings). Then the last thing I saw before turning the TV off before I threw a brick through it was Dr. Oz who had Trump on his show apparently. OMG! Is this what our country has devolved into???? How did we get to this point in my almost 7 decades on this earth?

It is so difficult for me to even wrap my mind around the fact that he has gotten the nomination let alone coming this close to being elected. I thought I'd lost all hope in this process when Bush was selected by the Supreme Court, but never did I think we would stoop this low. The media in this country has emboldened the stupid people of our country to believe they are smart enough to know who is a good President. There was a time when I was a young person when the people who weren't so smart or educated would say, "I want someone in the Presidency who is smarter than I am". Now they say, "I want someone just as ignorant as me so I can feel smarter than I am."

Egads. I have to never turn on the TV again until this is over or I'll have a stroke

[Nay]

4. Oh, yeah. I haven't watched TV news (or much TV at all) for 15 years. It's

unendurable. I have always thought that there were a lot of ignorant, emotionally volatile, mentally-challenged people in this country, and when it got to the point that they were all on TV spouting their shit, well, off the TV went. And now we've reaped what TV has sown -- the "normalization" of absolute lunacy.

This won't end well. I'm glad I'm old.

[BSdetect]

5. Its the same everywhere, I'm afraid

Humans are the same. I used to teach history and tried to steer students away from knee jerk reactions.

The sad lessons from Holocausts and war crimes is that people are the same no matter what they believe.

One lesson was to tell about an actual World War One war crime where prisoners were massacred after one threw a grenade at the guards. The students invariably thought that the prisoners were allies and the guards were Germans.

In fact the guards were Australians. The prisoners were Germans.

People are easily persuaded to be nasty at times.

[heaven05]

3. our press

has been bought and paid for. It's through with "fair and balanced". Never to be seen again.