Thank you for sharing this. I share your frustration with the weak link in the idea of democracy--the fact that shameless demagogues keep arising, funded by and for the super-rich. These demagogues successfully appeal to our basest emotions by exploiting the adrenal surge that the politics of hatred can trigger in people--especially those who are already frustrated and confused. This is exactly how Hitler subverted democracy in Germany, and Trump simply followed his script, very nearly subverting our own democracy.