He is scary... this whole thing is scary. I realize I'm not yet completely helpless, but I am absolutely dumbfounded by what is happening in this country. I can only try to persuade my mother to vote for whichever Democrat runs against Bush in November, because everyone else I know is not a republican and will support Bush, but I don't understand why. I can't fathom the decisions made by most of the people in this country. I don't know what they're about, how they can possibly support what they support--and that gives me my sense of helplessness.

I probably inherited this lack of understanding from my father. I have strong memories of him standing, dumbfounded, his jaw hanging open, boggling at something he couldn't comprehend or respond to. Ordinarily a very smart guy... just finding human behavior incomprehensible.