Dear Donald

I guess I should write this, as the election is coming round the final bend and fair is fair.

I am not a fan; not of reality TV shows and not of glitzy hotel casinos.

I am not the person that purchases a steak or a bottle of wine or a perfume because it bears the name of a famous person.

I hate branding, bumpersticker slogans, commercials aimed at making poor people feel richer so they spend too much for their whistle, and people being mean and nasty to prove they are rich and powerful.

And your campaign, your "say something at the beginning of a speech and change directions and deny you ever said it at the end of the speech" history changing, your insults that mimic the most simple-minded and hatefilled among us--I can see the country if you become president.

All those people that have tried to rein in their ugliness and hatefulness and meanness suddenly empowered to grab women's genitals and shoot homeless people and push people of color.  All those bullies that were barely maintaining jobs and lawfulness and families suddenly emboldened to let that selfish, egotistical and violent teenager back into control.

We will have a police state.

We will have violent riots instead of peaceful demonstrations.

We will have foreign journalists writing nightmare stories about where the USA has devolved to and our allies and enemies upping their surveillance so they can be ready when you pull out the nuclear codes over some little country insulting your hair or manhood.

You have gone bankrupt repeatedly and some of our citizens--the same ones that bought the patriotic "we are great" story that was pumped into us through the public schools for the last century--decided that what we need is a successful businessman.  In that case--where is Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Paul Zuckerberg.  Shoot--where is Oprah Winfrey?  She has a real Rags to Riches story.  Her daddy never loaned her any millions to start and lose a few times.

A part of me has thought your whole campaign was a lark.  You just being you, sh...ts and giggles.  But then you didn't just throw a kink in the Republican Primary--you won!  Who knew so many Republicans were so tired of their obstructionist, angry-faced, conservative, money-focused, "do it like we always did it" cronies.

A part of me thinks you also got a lot of people to the polls that don't usually vote.  The people with attention spans to short for sentences with more than 5 words.  The people that only read the headlines of a news article, the folks that thought every TV station but FOX was lying to them.

I know a lot of women that plan to vote for you. (Some of us women find that shocking and confusing.)  They are women that excuse rapists with "boys will be boys" and think government corruption is the cost of getting things done.  They also watched your TV show and have dreamed of a night in a sparkling, overly glamorous casino hotel with free drinks with umbrellas and a round bed in satin sounds sooooooo romantic.

Truthfully, most of the folks that want you, want to be you---they want to be rich.  They want to be famous.  They want to be able to say anything and do anything and be untouchable because of all their money.  And somehow, they think, if you are president----that is going to be possible.

So tell us Donald, are you going to give everyone that votes for you a million dollar loan so they can get rich also?

I didn't think so, even you don't have enough money to buy an election at that price.

Fortunately for you,  most of your voters don't realize that.  Math is not taught in headlines and 5 word sentences.  And those that can read and think and seem rather successful and together?

Well, we all buy our hope differently.  We hide from the truth that is sitting in our faces when it lets us be happier.  We pretend to things, like everyone is being treated well and fairly and no one has anything to gripe about that is out of their personal control.

We like our fictions that help us accept injustice, inequality, poverty, hopelessness, and evil as "not really that bad" or "they could have avoided that if they just followed the rules".  We prefer to blame the victims.  We want our institutions unsullied.

We have mostly earned you, Donald, as president.

Please don't blow us all up.