The President of the United States is neither a genius, nor a criminal mastermind.

The President of the United States is neither a genius, nor a criminal mastermind. He is, I am well convinced, a criminal. And, it seems likely, a long-time mob boss.

He's a criminal in the same way I am a gamer; it is part and parcel of who he is, and not something he consciously decides to be. It's just a part of his identity.

Plus, of course: He's a racist and a fascist and a bigot and a sexist. I don't mean to order these; they are each very bad.

Any one of these in the president of the united states, is very very bad; for the world, for Americans, for civil liberties and freedom and the economy generally. The combination is terrifying.

Add on that he is an old man, likely with dementia, who is bamboozled by television personalities and falls prey to fear mongering and does not believe in science, and we have something worse than a constitutional crisis: It may be an extinction-level event.

That is: The presidency of donald trump may sufficiently harm the ecosystem that the number of living humans able to survive becomes a tiny fraction of what it is now.

What can you do about it?
-- Vote him out
-- Vote for democrats, the party who at least doesn't want to destroy humanity
-- Volunteer, both politically and in the greater community
-- have conversations about it with those who do not yet see what a con man he is.