Just trying to make a difference.

Yesterday, multiple bombs were sent to high up democrats---powerful people that President Trump has castigated and bad-mouthed and accused of many horrible things.

His latest bit of pure terror-creating rhetoric involved 7000 "criminals and middle eastern terrorists paid to invade our country" by those above mentioned powerful and wealthy democrats.

The lie made no sense.
Why would the democrats sabotage their own chance to take back majority in congress.  Everyone knows that immigration is a mixed bag with both parties' constituents.

There are videos of those about 7000 individuals caravanning up through Mexico; they have been interviewed ad nauseum.  They are mostly men, but some women and children from the Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.  They are fleeing their countries due to crime, unemployment, gang violence, poverty and hunger.  Their countries have much corruption at the government level. (It would seem, so do we, instead of hating them, maybe we should work on not becoming them)

 https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/honduras/overview

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gt.html

http://theconversation.com/why-is-el-salvador-so-dangerous-4-essential-reads-89904

This is not the first large caravan of people from Central America---not even the first this year.

https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/arts/he-joined-the-migrant-caravan-then-gave-it-an-anthem/

The trip is more than 1000 miles long.  Many will fall out long before they get here.  They then apply for asylum.

The last group, at the first of this year started similarly to the current caravan, but it was down considerably when it got to the border and 3---THREE!--received asylum.

We didn't hear about it at the time BECAUSE OUR PRESIDENT DIDN'T TURN A BUSINESS AS USUAL EVENT INTO A TWITTER FRENZY LEADING TO A MEDIA CIRCUS.

So there is no doubt that Trump uses the media.
He just wants to control them completely.

That is how fascists work. (a corporation with a dictatorial, authoritarian owner/CEO is legal, you can always get another job, but in a country---well, where ya gonna go)

Spoon feed those followers to rev them up, turn them into angry, on-fire mobs of mindlessness.

Most of us do not want to hurt people no matter how much we disagree.  But there are those, those that are easy to sway and are prone to resorting to violence when their own problem-solving skills fall short of the goal.  Those that just want to be a part of something powerful.  Those that would really love to have power over others but are not actually very impressive, therefore locked out of the group of movers and shakers---and they will do anything--A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G-- to please their hero.

Trump has become the hero of a lot of people out there.
He says all that crap that they want to say but don't want to lose their friends or their job or their position in the church.

And, he regularly goes out and "fans the flames" of righteous indignation and hate at his rallies and on twitter with his 5 am poop.

He is a real releasor of the CRAZY.

So, we get bombs in the mail, within days of him blaming CNN (fake news) and "Crooked Hillary" and Obama ("that wasn't even born here") and George Soros, who is a huge supporter of world democracy---I can't decide if Trump(no longer on the forbes 400, as he is now the 716 richest in the world) is jealous of his giving away more money than Trump has, or if he just really hates democracy.

The flip side is the crazy feeling the rest of us get listening to Trump spew hate and rail against the things our democracy (republic, electoral college--whatever) values like freedom of speech and a free press and equal rights (even for nonwhite, nonmale, nonrich people).

So some of those flip side people (non-republicans) are accosting politicians in restaurants and pulling up political signs and punching the people that try to stop them.  We even had someone shoot at a group of republican congressmen at the beginning of crazy-man's presidency and the majority Whip was shot in the hip.

And why are people doing this crap?

In America, land of the gun, land of fighting for our beliefs, a land built on people moving here to get away from persecution, and being brought here against their will to make the lives of others easier, and being sent here to empty small prisons, we all expect that we might have to get a little dirty.  We worship our soldiers and police for their fighting skills.

Why did we not expect this turn of events?
Why did we not foresee that this highly charged environment could take us here?

You would think we all thought that the USA was too stable for a revolution or a civil war or even riots and assassinations.

Get real.

We have done all those things before.

Sad that one loudmouthed liar more concerned with raking in the money from his well-placed real estate by the patronage of diplomats and CEOs, is going to show the world how crazy we as a nation still are.

My advice.  Talk all you want, but be aware that while we have freedom of speech, we do not have the right to stop someone from talking by physical violence.  If you know someone prone to losing their sh-- over a verbal disagreement--don't poke that bear.
Dangerous times.