Last weekend, while in California, in the Oakland area waiting for a bus, there was a sign: "Kill Trump" in graffiti where we had to wait. Sadness...I wondered what seeing that would mean to a visitor of our nation? What would they think of a population where the suggestion of killing the elected leader was posted for all to see? I also thought of the cowardice of that "author." That person probably NEVER served this country but is reacting to vile emotions, five months after the nation spoke. Even if that person did serve, is that proper discourse? We are increasingly failing to understand the difference between what we CAN do, and what we SHOULD do, and I believe that is to our peril. Moreover, it would seem that our nation's schools of "higher education" are encouraging such behavior and extremely narrow and linear thinking, instead of truly free and open thought. My evidence was a poster in the Berkeley campus area protesting a person coming to speak...protests and threat of violence so great, the person never came. Does the author of the poster even have a clear understanding of what fascism is?