I've seen them too; in terms of threat I agree, I don't see them that way, I just see them as really really young.

I think some of Trump's appeal could be found in his tall talk about having ten billion dollars and this not needing any outside financing to be beholden to. Note that he got outside funding and is beholden to them like any politician, but then of course he is actually only worth around two billion according to those in the know, so, just adding floors to one of his buildings... times five. Yes, they all have strings and the longer they've 'served' generally the more strings they get on them. Hilary has a lot of strings by her second run (third you could even say) for the White House, as did McCain by the time he got to be the main man for the other guys. Trump who they thought wouldn't have any strings may have more than most. If you want to make a dent in a current Trump fan you'd probably have to point them to info on Trump's strings, especially to these foreigners he at the same time uses as some kind of immanent invasion force or deplorables.

I never thought conservatives could really back Trump as he is such a major born-into entitlement victim and for a couple decades I noticed that one thing conservatives say they can't stand are entitled victims. Then again, he seemed to "win" all the time and so here we are. Seeing him holding a Bible in public was about equally surreal. When put in with Saudis nobody is more for them than he is. When in with Israelis nobody is more for them than he is. In front of military nobody is more for them than he is. Nobody loves women more. Nobody does more for blacks. Whatever you're buying he'll be selling. Now you find out what you've got to lose.

"See chameleon, lying there in the sun, all things to everyone, run run away." - Slade

For what it's worth (and remember that us Brits are generally much more left-leaning than you Yanks), I'm a left-wing Socialist Labour voter who is, let's say, "romanced by Communism."

By that I mean that I find an awful lot of the Communist manifesto by Marx and Engels reasonates with my own politics. I also have a modest collection of Russian and Chinese Communist memorabilia...mostly medals and other militaria. I really love the iconography of Communist Russia, with its stirring depictions of proletariat workers. Heh, you know, I just remembered that back in the late '90s, I sometimes used to wear a black Mao suit (the ladies loved it! ).

Of course, in spite of my romantic notions about Communism, I know that it doesn't really work in the real world. But then I'd also say that pure Communism has never really been tried. Nevertheless, as a theoretical ideology, I think it's pretty sound.

In my experience, that's the kind of thing that gets left behind in college. It's all the rage during late night, dorm room philosophy sessions but once you're out in the real world it fades away real fast.

You'd think so, but hop on Twitter or the like and you'll see a bunch of people clinging to those philosophies well into their 30s. 

That's the point I was making earlier. They're not in power, so I don't worry about them. I just find them obnoxious and self righteous. 

This is my Congressional district. I live in the San Bernardino County part of it. I am so glad Cisneros is my congressman!

Cisneros wins California's 39th Congressional District as Blue Wave sweeps across Orange County.

(But don't ask how many disguises I wore to vote over and over again. (Somehow.) My make-up kit looks like Jimmy Olsen's, with several different-colored Groucho moustaches! I kept my disguises hidden behind a pile of forest rakes imported from Finland.)

Now wait a minute, back when I lived (and voted multiply per election) in California, I also used the Jimmy Olsen kit precisely because it offered such a diversity of effective diguises: gorilla, Viking, hippie, wolfman, giant turtle man, human porcupine, human octopus (8 ballots at once!), Elastic Lad, Flamebird...