A CULT OF STUPIDITY?

By Ruth A. Sheets

January 12, 2026

A member of Robert Reich’s thread and I had an interesting discussion for several days.  We discussed many things, but most interesting was a few exchanges about the general stupidity of the Trump regime.  These are two of my contributions to that discussion.  I realize it is only my side, but isn’t that often what happens in a blog!  

J L, I think character is our most important asset as Did Dr. King, and it was his words that I heard when I was 10 that started me on that path.  Many folks work hard to regularly adjust their character to fit the circumstance.  Such adjustment enables folks like Steve Miller to incite those “character-adjusters to do violence and lesser harms in the name of whatever hatred Miller et all drag out that day.  They say to themselves “that’s not who I am; I just got carried away.” 

When their hate works to do massive harm as Miller's hatred of immigrants has done, through ICE and others (hypothesized that it is due to his hatred of his Jewishness), he will keep it and magnify it.  When there is no accountability for the violence and cruelty, the orchestrator’s need for the "violence" multiplies and more people suffer which we now see in the establishment of concentration camp prisons for immigrants.  The vast majority held there, have done no crime, not even a traffic violation, and some are American citizens.  The crazy part, Miller et al don't have to do anything but open their mouths and it will be done (despite the fact that Miller has been elected to nothing by no one).  

Miller/Trump/Vance/Vought have now corralled Republicans/MAGAs all across the country to buy into his/their hatred of immigrants, ignoring what the American people want because, who is going to stop them?  They now have an army to stand against everyone else, and a lie-squad that can pump out lies before the truth is available.  All of this is criminal, far worse than anything immigrants have done in this country. 

How do we get more people to stand up, to display their positive character?  The death of Ms. Good in Minneapolis last week was meant to scare us all off, but I hope the response continues to be massive courageous protest.  then bring state charges and convictions against the perpetrators, whom the toddler president can't pardon. 

The white house media reps who heard Caroline Leavitt's clear lie last week should call her out on it all the time, no matter where she is and ask how she would feel if that had been her mother murdered in the street because an angry ICE agent had a gun and was masked.  She will whine and try to hide behind her Baby Donnie, but everyone except a few ignorant MAGAs knows that the entire regime lied about this murder, every one of them!  The regime is trying to gaslight, but most people choose to believe their own eyes and the videos taken at the moment of the murder, not the made-up AI altered fakes that Trump just released, thinking we’re all as stupid as he is!

J L, I think people who live in bubbles as many of certain careers or income brackets do, don't think past the confines of the bubble, even pushing their kids to bond only with folks from their own bubble, their race too, of course.  Most of the work gets done, often by the workers in the rich owners’ corporations, but the guys at the top don't know how or by whom.  They don't care if the wages for the workers is adequate, why should they care, particularly if the work gets done! 

Those owners and the regime in DC that supports them currently ignore global warming thinking if they can just make a few more100 billion they will be safe if the cataclysm arrives.  That thinking is truly beyond stupid, but if one is stuck in Bubbleland, their future is about making sure nothing is demanded of them in the present that will throw them off-course.  They buy politicians whom they think will work to that end on their behalf, and they do. 

People among those actual workers will suffer first, but that is OK with those in Bubbleland because in their minds, the crisis will never touch them because they have planned.  That sounds to me like a kind of cult of stupidity.  It would be a good idea if We the People outside the bubbles start trying to punch some holes to deflate those bubbles for the sake of all of us and our sacred planet.  We need a few pins in the hands of people who actually care and want to bring some reality to Bubbleland.