Here is something you probably haven’t thought much about. Sooner or later every society needs a messiah, a savior, to help it overcome an immense obstacle. Citizens of a nation don’t realize this until they hit a wall and can’t figure out how to climb over it.

We have minor messiahs in our lives from the get-go, folks we rely on heavily—parents, teachers, friends, employers, health care providers, therapists, media personalities, and other celebrities. Often a spouse capably steps into that role.

However, all these folks are quite fallible. At some point we realize we need an infallible personage, whether real or imagined, to guide our path, to give advice and counsel, to save us from our fears, our adversaries, our weaknesses, and especially the impending internal collapse of the nation.

Pastors, priests, and politicians are traditionally the ones we choose to place our confidence in when the going gets tough. When attacked from abroad, people look to a gallant and capable military commander to save them. All these would-be leaders promise us the moon. They are good-looking and successful, well-spoken and popular. They tell us our lives will be wonderful and in good hands if we follow them or elect them. Unfortunately, democracies die when citizens give up their own innate ability to deliver families and communities out of difficulty and turn over that responsibility to someone who asks for blind faith in their ability to lead.

When life gets very scary and extremely overwhelming, human beings often give over their faith and devotion to a last resort-type religious or political messiah—either a prophet or a king. Both of these kinds of historical saviors unhesitatingly declare they are blessed by heaven to deliver people from their current predicaments and failures.

America has long placed faith in ancient religious prophets, both Judaic and Christian, and more recently Muslim. But for the first time, we are faced with a living savior who would be king. He promises to banish all enemies, rectify every imbalance in nature and society, and save every citizen and family from whatever ails them. That man is Donald J. Trump.

Many folks in America want wealth, fame, power, safety, beauty, and strength, but just don’t know how to obtain all these things that they desire. Donald Trump has a great abundance of all that is needed and has the will and power to share it with everyone who will devote themselves to his rule and his kingdom.

The British turned out to admire or worship every word, deed and public appearance of the royal family. A similar phenomenon happens in America when former President Trump comes to town.

Every untended democracy ends up in autocracy or kingship. America’s first iteration of this kind of messiahship is available for us to either choose or deny on November 5th.