So about the danger of those Trump voters

I understand why he appeals to them.

I understand that they believe he can “fix” everything.

I understand that he’s appealing to their bigotry and hatreds.

I understand that they want their lives to be better.

I understand they’ve turned off their ability to think rationally.

I understand that they are afraid of a world that is not white and Christian.

What I don’t understand is why they can’t, in some minor way, grasp the reality that this is a man (accompanied by the Republican Party) who wants to virtually enslave them. It’s not that big a mental stretch to see what Trump would do if given full power. His voters are not, for the most part, Forrest Gump. They’re people who are angry, bitter and in need of their version of a “better world.”

In some ways, I pity them for the blinders they wear willingly. And in another way, I fear that their world-view can bring about destruction that will descend on us and them also.

And for all these reasons, I consider them the enemy of all sane human beings who hope for a far better world in which ignorance is curable and in which fairness, justice and tolerance are the norms.

“Enemy” is a harsh word. But consider the world that could come to be if their choice for president, Trump, ends up winning (or stealing) it. They can't grasp that their votes are a bigger threat to our freedoms than ISIS, Al Qaeda, and all the other groups that wish us ill. They don’t understand that when the ideals of America are tossed aside, the world will become a far worse place.