A Nightmare?

I woke with a panic from a nightmarish dream last night.  The man who had dominated the first Rep. Presidential Debate the night before appeared at my door shaking his finger at me while scolding me in rather harsh words for failing to have voted for him as our next president. I wondered if the presidential vote had already been?... Shuddering awake from this vision, I found it hard to return to sleep.

Since the debate, I have seen little else occupying our media spokespersons, the newspaper headlines, and even our conversations at home here.  While the views seem starkly divided, the very amount of attention and time spent on this man, his wealth, background and behavior, cause me to wonder what the future of this great country might look like under such an occupant of the Presidential Office in the White House.

Considering the current reality on the global scale, I cannot feel optimistic for my children's and grandchildren's futures, nor actually for the rest of humanity's.

Perhaps, I tell myself, it was only a very dark dream after all... or was it?