Trump scares me to death

I've been thinking a lot about the present American political situation, and would like to express some thoughts in as sensible and complete way as I can in a reasonably short message, although I suspect I will come under considerable abuse.

That the American political system doesn't work very well (few do) is evidenced by the two candidates who rose to the top, and I think the main reason is closed primaries.  They should have a series of primaries where all candidates are on the same list, regardless of party, and the bottom twenty percent or so are dropped and another primary is held, and repeated until someone gets a majority.  That way the extremists of both parties cannot call the agenda.

Still, the results this time have been particularly disappointing.  Mrs. Clinton demonstrated considerable incompetence with the email business, and I still don't understand, and will probably never understand, Benghazi, but clearly something went badly wrong and she and Obama were at the helm.

  

Disappointing as she is, her opponent really scares me, as I read him loud and clear as mainly an egoistic, unprincipled bigot, and the fact that he seems to appeal to so many gives me pause about the human race.

What is a bigot?  Well of course we have racism, which is a little confused as we don't clearly break the species into races.  What is more common in most countries is prejudice against minority cultures, which is partially racial (Chinese and Vietnamese, for example, are both Asian race, but there are differences one can notice).  There is a lot of prejudice in the Vietnamese population against the Chinese, partly for historical reasons but mainly just because they are a different culture and a lot of people automatically dislike those of different cultures.

Pertaining to America, Africans, Latins, Homosexuals, Muslims, and of course foreigners in general seems to be targets of a lot of prejudice -- something that Trump uses, cleverly I must admit.  But then he is a sociopath con man, so this is not surprising.  His speech, where he totally distorted the United States -- the greatest country on the earth -- into a crime-ridden, poverty-stricken, run-down cesspool, shocked me, and he got away with it -- not even his critics called him on it.  Americans must be really isolated from the rest of the world to accept that crap.  Just his excuses for not releasing his taxes and all the failed businesses he has started, which he got away from and others lost millions, say this is an accomplished con artist, but not a competent executive -- a flim-flam man.

Frankly I realize Clinton will probably win, and so the US will have a reasonably good government -- she seems fairly centrist although to keep her party happy she had to veer left for now.  Still, who knows what lies in the woodwork or that might be alleged (without proof but who needs proof when using The Big Lie) and she could lose.  I am terrified.