Pre- Convention

July finally came, as it always has in my 80 years.
The Republican convention happens in Cleveland, OH in four days.  There is still a lot of chatter that many delegates intend to vote their conscience and HOPE that Donald Trump does not become the candidate, even though he RAN and got all those votes. Yet, when you look at the number of votes, and voters in comparison to all the "Republican" professors, that is to say 'conservative folk'... and the great number of votes that were cast for Clinton and Sanders... added together,  you realize there is a GREAT quantity out there who is NOT for Donald Trump.
I was having a conversation about Trump with a relative.  Several, in fact.  They said, 'No wonder he got as far as he has,  he is smart'.  "No, he is not, "  I countered. 
I thought a lot about that conversation today.  And I thought a lot about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her boldness to speak about the candidate that made her so sick to her stomach,  that she spoke without her usual discretion. 
 Donald Trump is cunning- slick, and deceptive.  I will grant that much ability to him.  However,  that is not 'intelligence or smarts,'  nor is it Christlike or loving.   (Yet he has protested and actually 'ran' in his campaign, on the notion that he is a "Christian". )  He also cheats wherever it is possible and admits it, feeling he is GREAT because he can do it.
He wants to cut taxes for the rich, of which he is one... and said very PUBLICLY,  "i never pay any taxes except what i have to!"  And refuses to show his tax returns.
Should Donald Trump continue to RUN in this election,  I will be very surprised and in my heart, I will be pained and feel helpless and hopeless... 
I know the democrats offer a better chance for progressive government, and more hope than the republican party... who have always shut out the poor man, and uplifted those who make money and step on the sick and pitiful.  Yet the very Christ they claim to follow- taught against worldly riches and taught us to treat each other the way we treat ourselves.
I hope and pray we hear that name the LAST TIME when the convention is over.