Donald Rates a Dys-

I like the word prefix dys-, indicating as it does abnormality and mal-function with undercurrents of repugnance, moral degradation and the potential for harm--as opposed to mis-, which has connotations of inaccuracy and error. The presidency of the mis-creant, Bush, was a catastrophic mis-take.

Trump promises dys-function and pernicious, societal disease--both resulting from and ensuring America's continuing decline into a dys-topian nightmare of a sort never before beheld because of its industrial, post-industrial and technological, info-age aspects. It's a mal-formation of democracy.

And then there's mal-. Agrarian societies have an unavoidably decentralized element and character. Not so, in a technological context. The potential for centralization and the concentration of power and resources is immense--and therefore, in keeping, so is the degree of the possibility of contagious mal-ignity.

Trump promises us a monstrous America. One mis-step, a self-propagating error, and we could find ourselves in a pit of shit not as bad as some, but nobody likes to go backwards and Americans have more room for that than anyone ever before. Think of the harm Trump could do at home and elsewhere and shudder.