[TheRealThing]

Disinformation and propaganda has been a larger part of this election than ever before. And it wasn't from just one candidate, either.

It just makes it more difficult to make an informed choice. News outlets that I used to rely on a little heavier than some of the others, even participated. That's okay. Being newly retired, I have time to search!

You nailed it and I got to say the mischaracterizations you mention coming from the candidates abound. I heard Cruz pnly yesterday, and BTW all the man talks about is Donald Trump, but with voice dripping with preachy drama, he said that Trump has vowed to punish any business that moves or threatens to move it's operation offshore. Of course, Trump has said nothing of the kind, rather he has suggested a number of incentives to motivate these businesses to stay home.

Trump's argument states that since the inception of NAFTA, we have seen the exodus of manufacturing and other industrial concerns to Mexico and the far East. TPP will only exacerbate the problem which if I had to condense, is we have become a service based nation as opposed to an industrial based nation. The jobs aren't there, they've been funneling out at a mind numbing rate going back to the Clinton era. His plan is not to punish business, it is to revitalize it by allowing them to once again make money inside the US. I believe the data support Trump's view on free trade.

And that is only one example. Wanting the Presidency in order to serve the people is one thing. Whether wanting it because as in Hillary's case, self delusion's psychotic whisperings tell her she deserves it, or in Cruz's case that he is only one alive who can do the job owing largely to confidence; The distortions about Trump are none the less beneath a man or woman, who truly deserves all the adjulation of the office.