By Ruth A. Sheets
June 3, 2026
I like responding to comments on my several threads. One commenter said that people are trying to be a bit better because of some of the ridiculous, even appalling things this current Trumpian regime (my term) has been doing. This was my response.
I do hope you are right about people wanting to do better, but it seems EVIL like that displayed by Trump and his white house toddler pool is not easy to stop. They get their hooks into so many places and people who then feel they must be loyal to the hookers.
They proceed by proving their moral compass doesn't exist or is in the shop being repaired (maybe permanently). Integrity is an unnecessary burden. Kindness just gets in the way.
Trump and his toddler pool can’t make their takeover on their own; they have to get media involved so they can pass the message on and forge the chain that ends up giving power to people who do not deserve it, people who promote fear in ways I consider evil.
The target of Trump and his “friends is not what one might expect since he is a racist, misogynistic fool. His target, white men. He knew there are a lot of scared white people who have been groomed over time to believe they are the ones being treated badly by those people, the ones who don’t look like them. They were and are angry and often afraid. They needed to be seen by people in power as the put-upon guys being abused by the people who are just cheating; they’re “welfare queens” and “affirmative action hires.”
Donald Trump was just the guy they wanted for their salvation. Now they are desperately clinging to Trump, an ignoramus with dementia because they bought the message that Trump would save them from the libs, the woke who have “done them wrong,” that they are being replaced by those people, you know, the ones that don’t look like them.
I suspect those scared white folks don’t really have a clue what replacement would mean for them, but it doesn’t matter. There is a whole cadre of folks out here, willing to plant seeds of something that sounds horrible, and the imaginations of the scared are off and running and there is no opportunity in their minds to stop and actually consider the implications, the fact that they are being used. Why should they wonder about what that means? Why would they want to know that for decades, Donald Trump has been one of the masters of the con, and he and his buddies are conning them, conning all of us.
Trump is a rich white man as are most members of the white house toddler pool (a bunch of whiny white people, mostly men who complain, blame, insult with the goal of intimidating and silencing their targets), afraid someone will find out that they might not be the brightest bulbs in any string. Being rich, white, and male are the only requirements for those scared white folks to guarantee their superiority. They have been convinced nothing can be worse than being “replaced” by those people!
The real problem, they don’t want to notice that they and all of us are already targets of the rich white males in power. Those rich white men want us all to be replaced by AI machines on the job, rather than messy people/workers those rich corporate masters don’t want to deal with. Those humans might demand higher taxes on the rich, better wages, more caring behavior on the part of the corporations, more integrity, stopping their cheating. The folks in power are not willing to give these up, so everyone suffers, including those scared white residents of Trumplandia. The rich white men in power don't even think of them except when they need their votes and can lie their way into the hearts of Wwhiteland.
Black, Hispanic, native American, LGBTQ, and other groups are aware of how those in power feel about them and are working on ways to stop the onslaught. Scared white folks think they are safe from this Trumpian/rich guy insanity, and will someday be those rich white guys themselves (they won't). Their dreams make them “work” to keep those who care for nothing and no one in power, hoping they will get rewarded for giving up any integrity they might have had.
For Trump, his toddler pool, and the oligarchs, those scared white people exist only in November every even year when they can be handily used to vote to keep the uncaring, money and power addicts in charge. It would be great if we could get the scared white folks to look at their racism, misogyny, homo/transphobia, xenophobia to see the damage it is doing to them and their families, while they are being told they are keeping those people in their place. The people they target have done nothing to harm them while the members of Trump’s toddler pool have done a lot of harm.
Right now, scared white folks think they have truth on their side, sure everyone not like them is evil, trying to steal from them (getting a free ride), all the things the evil-rich in charge keep feeding them, their banquet of lies. Unfortunately, their religious leaders often reinforce that, identifying Trump as “god’s messenger” (not likely).
How do we reach people who are too scared to even begin to look at their lives and what they are doing and agreeing to? I think any approach needs to be from many different angles depending who is being addressed.
- Listen more than speaking. A lot of Trumplandia is used to being told what to do and not listened to
- Say things like (and mean them), I understand your position. Have you thought that: you are helping to pay for a war you did not agree to- that is raising gas prices a lot; really, tariffs are taxes on us, you too, not the countries the products and services are from; immigrants are your neighbors and do a lot of the work you and I most likely wouldn’t do and are not skilled at.
- Ask people, what is it within your faith that makes it acceptable to starve, abuse, and imprison innocent people, to pollute our air and water, allow the rich folks to dictate what happens to the rest of us; ignore global warming when it is God who is the creator? What role does love have in your life as a Christian or Jew?
- What do you think your taxes should pay for? Who should decide?
- Are you familiar with our Constitution? Would you like a copy (give them a pocket Constitution if they would like one.)
I think you get the idea. Accusing the scared folks will not make any points. I suspect many of them know they are being used and feel the anger of knowing that. Bringing them to a place where they can start to see how they “are being used” by their “heroes,” without saying those words can make a positive, maybe even freeing difference for them and for us all.
This is complicated and will take effort on our part, but it can work. It’s worth a try!
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