Regardless of who wins, we're in trouble

Both major party candidates are a bad choice for president. No third-party candidate has been shown to be worth voting for. Clinton and Trump fight like children, saying very little of intelligence or substance. Clinton has email problems. Trump now has something worse: sexual assault.

First a tape emerges that shows Trump bragging about fondling and sexually assaulting women, which he dismisses as "locker room talk." Then women come forward to accuse Trump of doing to them exactly what he bragged about in the tape. Now Trump has flown into completely outrageous claims that the women were encouraged to lie by the Clinton campaign, a corrupt media and international businesses while he also accuses Clinton of being on drugs during the second debate.

Why doesn't everyone yell, "Give me a break!" The most frightening aspect of the year is a huge horde of blind voters who seem unable to perceive reality even if it is a tree right in front of their faces.

As terrible as Trump has exposed himself to be, I feel that he is right about one thing. The United States is in decline and likely headed for collapse. But I don't believe that Trump or Clinton can do anything about it when Congress looks like a House of Clowns.

I feel that things will get worse during the next four years no matter who wins the presidency.

Rich Lorimer

Streamwood