If I understand it correctly, Hillary Clinton says that Wall Street greed, unresolved climate change and police shootings will kill us as a nation. Donald Trump says that high taxes on corporate wealth, unrestricted immigration and bad contracts with foreign governments will kill us.

Actually — and even more so after Monday night’s much-touted first presidential debate — I can, with total confidence, attest that they are both wrong. The one thing that is really killing us is this endless campaign.

If I had to review what I took away from Monday’s debate, I could only say that both candidates confirmed even further what they are.

Hillary looked good. She actually has a lovely smile and it was pleasing to see her indulge it. By all accounts, she was the more articulate and informed of the two. She was also the very model of the “insider” of the last half-century.

As for Donald, he has three major points. These are: the threat of illegal immigration to America as a nation, the supposed defiling of the white American working man, and a China that is stealing our pants (not to speak of our virtue and virility). I am constantly bewildered that the Democrats have not more gainfully “borrowed” these points from the Republicans.

Now, the world always has room for surprises, and yet we only foolishly count on them, so I have to fall back on the supposition that Hillary would be a good, dependable president, very much in the line of Barack Obama, while we could depend upon The Donald to be either the “change agent” or the “chaos agent,” depending upon your own personal vision.

Hillary says repeatedly that her lifelong aim has been to “help children” — but exactly what does that mean? Everyone, except perhaps a few bad priests in Boston, wants to help children, but help them to what? Donald says he wants to “write better contracts” for America with other countries and companies, but exactly what would his percentage be?

Since there are not yet answers to these extremely cogent questions, I shall herewith, as someone who has run for even fewer offices than Donald Trump, propose my own program for the future:

• Campaigns for the presidency of the United States of America shall stretch for two weeks in the January before the election the next November. Since that is when the weather is worst in most places, even the debates will look good to us.

• Our foreign policy will include serious studies of what parts of the world and what political, economic and social issues are most important to us so that, God willing, we do not again go to war in remote, post-colonial situations like Southeast Asia or in secular dictatorships like Iraq, thus working hard to make the world worse for everyone.

• We will pursue and promote policies such as the preservation of the land, environmental care and birth control wherever needed (which is almost everywhere), and promise to keep our mitts off “nations” that don’t want to be “built” by our fumbling idiots.

• Any American corporations that have taken their jobs overseas and/or stashed dollars away on remote islands, prairies and/or any other corners of the globe shall be held up to the public as traitors to their people and shamed in the public squares of Chicago, Sacramento or wherever.

I could go on, but you get the idea. Besides, I’m tired. I was only 19 years old when this presidential campaign started, and now I’m an old lady.

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