Anyone who pretends to not know what Trump is about is just a liar. People who vote for him want fascism and that's why they vote for him. I'm sick and tired of the excuses.

I don't really think most people form their beliefs based on what is logically true; they get their cues from the group who makes them feel a sense of community.

Deviation from this accepted morality carries the risk of being ostracized, and acts as a control mechanism to keep people in line.

The real issue, in my opinion, is that people are getting their moral cues from an amoral media who wants to enrage them for profit and then the reactionaries carry that back to their communities to feed it into their echo chambers.

Therefore, I don't really think facts will change people's politics; that will not happen until their reactionary community either is no longer useful to them or they find something more worthwhile outside of it. I respectfully reject that there is a fundamentally different strategy for "true believers" and "the fooled;" I'd say both populations are mostly the same (except for the politicians, who know exactly what the game is).

Although I appreciate the organization 'opensecrets' ... I don't trust the organizations and groups that give over information for reporting purposes.

Millionaires and billionaires and corporations have a habit of being able to fudge, fake, deflate or exaggerate reported numbers for their own benefit.

I worked in a small way for political organizations at the local level in southern Ontario ... nothing major but nothing minor either. One of the things I learned was that money and those with lots of money easily influence people without having to spend any money - all they have to do is promise money later. It means a campaign can count on the expertise of highly trained people who volunteer for a campaign.

Who do you think has more chance of winning an election .... a campaign filled with inexperienced college student volunteers who have no resources or wealth of their own ... or a campaign filled with business/media/advertising/political/legal professionals who are all volunteering their time and personal resources to a campaign ........... and all of this is never reported as a financial number in a spreadsheet or report, and if it is, it is almost impossible to calculate the value.

Clinton was on track to win, and would have, but James Comey (Director FBI) pulled the rug on her, in October, by publicly announcing the reopening of her email investigation.