I suspect the next midterm elections will be a test of American intelligence and courage. 
America will have seen the true face of oligarchic pharaohs, people who see it as their mission to lord it over us all, to mock the power of women, to use the strength of the poor to build pyramids of wealth for the rich.
I just watched Trump slight the female German leader and thought that I had seen that body language a million times before, having grown up in a time that saw women as household creatures but not equals to men (the smirk and the turning away from a face to face conversation with an equal). 
I wonder if women will turn out to vote. I wonder if young female college students will have learned the essential lesson that voting is perhaps the most important civic duty of their lives, and if left to others, Trumpist disasters occur. 
I wonder if we will be at war by the elections so voter nullification will be in effect. 


Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon