Stephan:   Michael Moore has written an essay with which I largely agree. I do not see the Ventura Effect, he details, in the same way, but his central thesis that Trump could win the election and the reasons he gives for this happening I agree are valid. I have just returned from two weeks in Italy speaking at two conferences and it has afforded me the opportunity to look at the U.S. from the outside. Listening to people from all classes, income, and educational levels has been very revealing for me, and I am continually reminded of Germany and the rise of Hitler. The analogy was made to me a number of times by Europeans. I see both Trump and Sanders as expressions of the outrage the population of America feels about the rise of the oligarchy. Trump is a candidate of fear, racism, nativism, and anger. Sanders is his antipode.  But the central problem, the leverage point the the Great Neo-feudalism Trend in which the real power transfers from the "elected" political states to the trans-national corporate states. This is our last chance to stop this process. If Trump wins, and along with Moore I think this is very possible, America will go down a very dark path that will provoke global disorder augmented by the stress of climate change, which will not be recognized by the Republlicans until it is too late to do anything meaningful about it.