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I'm glad you talked about Marxism.

My big problem with Marxism is that it tries to force extreme conformity on humans--something that is essentially completely against human nature. Small wonder why in their efforts to enforce conformity, the result was a massive death toll in the former Soviet Union and China during the reigns of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong--some scholars think that death toll could have been as high as 150 million from mass shootings, labor camps, forced exile, deliberate famine and just ill-advised economic policies.

Another awful aspect of Marxism is how it tries to erase previous cultures. Look at how both the Soviet Union and China destroyed much of their historical heritage in an effort to impose Marxism. Perhaps the best-known example was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, which was destroyed in 1931 on Stalin's orders to build a new, grandiose building called Palace of the Soviets in its place--and would probably have been completed if it weren't for World War II. (Interestingly, this church was subsequently rebuilt after the fall of the Soviet Union.)

But getting back in topic, it's increasingly obvious that Hillary Clinton--once the campaigning went into high season on Labor Day--became a massive disappointment as a candidate, though the Democrats won't really officially admit it. The combination of questionable health, ill-advised speeches and all those scandals catching up to her has really hampered her campaign, to say the least. And even all the help from the friendly mainstream media (MSM) hasn't propped up her campaign, either. Meanwhile, Donald Trump attracts huge crowds at rallies, totally flummoxed the MSM, embraced Hillary's "basket of deplorables" remark and turned THAT into a positive, and finally turning the refrain of the song "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from the Les Misérables musical into essentially the anthem for the Trump campaign (much the chagrin of the Left!).

We live in interesting times, to say the least.