When it comes to my bafflement over how almost 70 million people could support Donald Trump, on a smaller scale this is what it is like:

Back in 1993, after becoming a police officer, my parents were enthralled with the radio traffic, so for Christmas, I bought them a police scanner.  Back then, sometimes while listening to the scanner telephone calls from the cordless phones of the day would bleed over and be captured by the scanner. 

Now, even though it wasn't entirely polite of my parents to do, they started listening to these telephone calls and soon were shocked by what these telephone calls revealed about their neighbors.  They learned so much about the true nature of their neighbors.  One of these neighbors was a beloved elderly woman that no one had anything bad to say about.  Through these calls, my parents learned just how horrible this person really was and it was to the core.  She actually spared no one when it came to her telephone calls - she attacked EVERYONE.  Oddly, with my mother being a RN, guess who this woman ran to for help when her husband dropped dead from a heart attack - yes, my mother. 

But man, through these telephone calls, my parents learned so much about their neighbors - from dope dealing to character assassinations, to affairs, to all other sorts of nasty shit (often times, my parents were attacked for a variety of things).

Soon, my parents started isolating themselves from these phony people.

After awhile I apologize to them for ever giving them a scanner in the first place and while a lot of it did hurt my mothers' feelings, my father was grateful.  He always told me how it opened his eyes more to how people are.

So on a grander scale, that is what I take away from these Trump supporters - it opens your eyes to some really disgusting truth and it also hurts to think there are so many people that approve of this man's horrific nature.  It also leaves one wondering about the truth of America.