I read today  that over 40% of Republicans prefer Putin over Obama! Quite stunning really, particularly when so many Republicans tell Democrats that "we" should all pull together and support our new president-elect - see Arnold Schwarzenegger the other day, for example.

How is it that, in the supposed "home of the free", such a vast proportion of the electorate prefer an oligarchic dictator over their democratically elected President?

This despite growing up pledging allegiance every day at school!

And then we have Trump. The United States' own oligarch and dictator in the making!

The US and it's people are certainly very ill, perhaps even terminally so. The rabid partisanship and refusal to see reason, the anti-intellectualism, anti-science and the rise of mad religious crazies to positions of power, is an exact mirror to that which they supposedly so vehemently oppose in radical Islam.

It's beginning to look a lot like 1931 in Europe. The future looks dire, quite frankly.