"You're the last person I thought would ever come through for me."

As he is wheeled out of the hospital, lamed and helpless from the amputation of his gangrenous appendages, recently fired from his job, divorced by his wife, and shunned by his friends, an embittered and declining Max Basner (Jackie Gleason), speaks these words to his long-estranged but now supportive playboy son (Tom Hanks) in the 1986 film Nothing in Common.

It was the dying Gleason's last film, and one of Hanks' first serious roles.

For me, and hopefully an electoral majority of voters, Donald Trump is likewise the last person I thought would ever come through for me."

Yes, Trump and I have Nothing in Common. I will never be invited to the Trump Towers, nor ride on the Trump airplane. I don't expect to ever play on a Trump golf course, and he never asked me to judge the Miss Universe contest. I can't even afford a Trump Steak.

But I am supporting Donald Trump, because America is on the cusp of the dissolution of its values, ideals, goodness, and culture, a decline the elites in the ruling class and their allies in media and politics not only refuse to recognize, but even exacerbate. Of all the characters that have marched across the political stage this year, Democrat and Republican, it seems that only Trump is looking out for us. The rest are pandering to the donor class, Wall Street, the tribal entities, the globalists, illegal aliens, and the entitlement recipients.

We Deplorables might have hoped our rescuer would be a reincarnated Ronald Reagan, riding in on a white horse. Instead, we got the Orkin Man, or the Cable Guy. But Hillary Clinton, or Jeb Bush can't or won't exterminate my roaches, or bring a picture to my TV, or save my country. Donald Trump can.

The symptoms of our America in extremis are all around us.

Our flag, anthem, and history are defiled. Rules of law are only for us to obey, not the Clintonian grifters. We are tasked with the burden of defending this nation with our lives, while our rulers eschew victories and let our enemies mock us. Our Middle Class incomes drop, while those at the top get more wealthy and take our diminishing monies to purchase the electoral loyalty of an underclass they keep in bondage. Once venerable institutions like the FBI, the Supreme Court, even the IRS, are now corrupt political Mafias protecting and enriching their favored dons and capos. Our schools are politically-correct wastelands, intellectual deserts without knowledge, history, or civics. Our debts are unserviceable. Foreign entities are vacuuming away our jobs and wealth, and foreign invaders are crashing our borders and stealing our culture, with the approval and aid of indifferent leaders, immunized from the havoc and suffering they bring upon the rest of us.

America's greatness arose from a novel and now seemingly forgotten concept -- that its people, applying rights and powers devolved from their Creator, can rule themselves better than a monarch, plutocrat, or liege.

Its founding document, which reneging leaders and judges once swore to preserve, protect, and defend, begins with a simple yet profound "WE, the People." Our greatest president considered his greatest task to ensure "that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Tonight, like any other night this election season, the denizens of punditry will be exchanging scathing commentary among themselves, their connected politicians, and the political consultants about the odious Donald Trump. They certainly won't be talking to us, the people. We are so far beneath them.

They can't understand how a Donald Trump can even exist, let alone find purchase among so many of those voting commoners. To them, in the words of the establishment candidate they support, it must be that we are " racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and also pretty stupid. To her and her aristocracy, we are "not America." We fight their wars, fund their philanthropy, obey their laws, create their wealth, produce their food, protect their families -- but we are not America?

Ironically, Clinton was inadvertently correct, if somewhat obtuse, when she opined “that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re desperate for change.”

Yep, Hillary Clinton, along with the Paul Ryans, et al, by their words, actions, and deceits, have shown that nobody in their Ruling Class cares about us, and our quaint tenets of the country we love, the deity we worship, the laws we obey, the families we support. It is they with whom we have nothing in common.

But I believe Donald Trump does. I know that he is not perfect, that his brashness may occasionally offend, and that his beliefs may at times diverge from mine. With Trump I may have nothing in common, save for wanting to make America great again and for We, the People, all of us, to make this great America ours again.

Donald Trump is the last person we thought would ever come through for us.

But he did, and he gets my vote.

William Campenni is a retired engineer, business owner, and Air Force fighter pilot.