I must record two politically-motivated dreams that I've had this week.

The first was early Tuesday morning (4 February 2020).  Iowa had held its first-in-the-nation caucus the evening before.  In the dream I saw a line of ceramic tiles gaily cartwheeling on their corners down a railroad track.  They represented the Trump train.

Quite a while later another train came along.  It was the Bernie Sanders train.  Its shoulder was thrust forward in a determined manner, and its wheels were turning just as fast as they could possibly be made to go as the train worked its hardest to catch the Trump train.

Close behind the Sanders train came another, and then another, and then I waited and watched  in vain for the Biden train that never appeared.

I got up Tuesday morning and brought Fox News up on the computer to get the results of the Iowa caucus.  Because of a glitch in the state's counting system there were no results posted.  Trump was happily calling it a "train wreck."  That made my train analogy all the more interesting.  It wasn't until Thursday that the Iowa Democrats were able to announce that Bernie Sanders had narrowly won the most votes, closely followed by Beauty-gag, followed by Elizabeth Warren, and that Biden was a distant fourth.

Last night I had the other dream, which I know was inspired by the wonderment which I have about the low quality of candidates put forth by the Democratic party.  They've been putting forth low quality candidates ever since socialist George McGovern was nominated to run against Richard Nixon.  This time around there were over two dozen Democrats who announced their candidacy, and not one of them was a person that I could admire.  Parenthetically, I must say that neither do I admire Donald Trump.  I think that he is a disgusting person, rude, immoral, and an egoist.  All of the Democratic candidates are likewise egoists.  I did not vote for Trump in the last election.  I couldn't.  Neither could I vote for the lady running against him.  She was worse.

I have decided, however, that this time around I will vote for Trump.  I will do so because he has accomplished good things.  I still don't like him, but I like what he's done.  He is like Morianton in the Book of Mormon.  He does justice unto the people, "but not unto himself."  (Ether 10:11).

The low quality of the Democratic candidates simply astounds me.  How they muster a following baffles and worries me.  Sanders and Warren are openly socialists.  Trump called Sanders a communist, which he may be.  I think Obama, our last president (Democrat), was, too.  The fact that America could survive eight years of Clinton, eight years of Obama, and the weak presidencies of the two Bush presidents (Republican), and Carter (Democrat) shows the strength of the American system and Constitution.

Sanders and a man with an unpronounceable name were neck and neck in Iowa.  I render the unpronounceable name as Beauty-gag.  Beauty-gag was the mayor of a poorly-run city.  That is the sum total of his political credentials.  He is homosexual, and is married to a man.  This candidate is admired?!!  This man has a following!  This man has no knowledge about families, love, selflessness, human relationships, babies, children, morality, religion, or life.  He doesn't know which end of the stick to pick up, and some people think he should lead us?!  I am appalled.

In my dream I saw a gigantic, dilapidated barn.  It was so ramshackle that the slightest movement or gust of wind was likely to bring the whole thing crashing down.  Up in the expansive loft was a huge, innumerable herd of cattle.  It was obvious that they were in great danger.  Beauty-gag and his crew were puzzling over how to get the cattle down and out of the barn.  They had no experience with cattle, and had not the slightest idea what was the proper thing to do.  The only thing they knew about cattle was that they are transported in cattle trucks.  They, therefore, directed me to drive a cattle truck up into the loft where they would manually catch and load each cow.  Never mind the fact that there was no way to get the truck up into the loft.  Never mind that the weight of the truck would make the barn collapse.  Never mind that numberless trips and loads and weeks of work that would be necessary to complete the rescue.

I carefully climbed up into the loft.  Walls were falling against one another as I proceeded.  I directed Beauty-gag and his crew to leave the building, and to go line the streets so as to channel the cattle drive that I was about to initiate.  I then found a gentle cow, put a halter on her, led her out of the barn, gave my cattle whoop, and the barn quickly emptied as the whole herd followed me down the street to a corral that had been prepared.

Harry Truman, a Democrat, was president when I was born.  He was a good one.  He was the last good Democrat.  He was followed by Eisenhower, a good man and a Republican.  He served eight years.  Next came immoral Kennedy, a Democrat.  Upon his assassination, he was succeeded by Johnson, not a good man, who served nearly six years.  The next election pitted Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey, against Richard Nixon, both of whom were probably evil.  The next election was won by Nixon in a landslide against George McGovern.  That was in 1968.  McGovern  won only his home state of South Dakota.

Nixon had to resign halfway through his second term.  His corrupt vice president had previously resigned.  Gerald Ford finished Nixon's last two years.  He was a good, moral leader, but lost the next election (1972) to Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.  Jimmy Carter was a good man, but a weak leader.  His four years were followed by Ronald Reagan, a Republican, who was the only truly great president of my lifetime.  He served eight years.

I believe that I can say that every Democratic candidate since that time has been either immoral, corrupt, or inept.  I would gladly vote for a good man who was a Democrat, but there hasn't been one.  This latest pack is the most incredible yet.

I worry about our country and our future.  My comfort is in knowing that the Lord is in charge, and that things will unfold as they should.

Meanwhile, there will be some tough things to go through, but I know that we will make it through if we stay close to the Lord and follow His prophets.

(Postscript:  Margie says, "I'm all for Trump now, given the alternative.")