I wrote the majority of this about 3 hours after the final U.S. Presidential debate ended. The next morning I was still in shock (and wondering how to lower my blood pressure!). I made a few additions as I watched the sun rise and spread light slowly down the mountain peaks to the west of me, first an alpine glow, a gentle reddish pink color, then with a pristine blue sky the light becomes sharp and bright. All the better to see reality.

It is a couple of hours after the end of the final U.S. Presidential debate and I am in shock that the Republican candidate for president of this country would actually threaten our entire democratic process! How can anyone possibly be undecided anymore? How can anyone in his own party continue to stand by him?

Almost everything he said was either an outright lie, a misconstruction of facts, or a bizarre innuendo. There are so many untruths, misleading accusations, it is impossible to keep track of them all. I read several post-debate fact checkers so this is NOT just my biased opinion. But the most serious issue (not that bigotry, racism, sexism, connections to Putin, a total lack of understanding of economic reality, no fear of using nuclear weapons, and so much else isn’t also important) is the threat to our democratic electoral process. There is no voter fraud in this country; his outrageous charges about that are totally fallacious.