Dear Trump Voter,
As I’m sure you noticed, most of the media has decided that you voted for Trump because you are a bigot or a sexist. You and I know this isn’t true. I believe that you are just a person who is frustrated with what has happened in your life and in your children’s lives. You’ve been told by Republicans/conservatives since the Reagan administration that your problems are caused by women, African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans and “liberals” who are funneling your jobs and money to those groups. You’ve also been told by Republicans/conservatives since the Reagan administration that Republicans can put these groups in their place and solve your economic problems.
And yet, after all these years, you still keep getting poorer and your middle class life has vanished without much hope of it returning. Just as bad, it is clear that your children have little chance of having a better life than you have had. Perhaps a few years ago, you voted for Tea Party candidates who promised that they would do for you what mainstream Republicans said they would do, but never did. And yet, strangely nothing really changes in your life. How can this be?
The answer is that your income, benefits, pensions and any savings you had have been drained away, not by women, African-Americans, Hispanics or Asian-Americans, who still make less than while males, but by the CEO’s of big businesses, banks, and financial institutions. It’s these CEO’s who have, one way or another, cut your wages and benefits, or taken them away in the case of your pension, and taken your job away and left you with, at best, a much worse paying job. They are also the people who every day in a thousand ways increase the cost of the goods you buy while providing worse and worse products and services. This is how the 1% has gotten richer and richer since the Reagan administration and how you have gotten poorer and poorer. These CEO’s, the US Chamber of Commerce and other members of the 1% have done this through thousands of laws and regulations which have been put in place by Republicans at the insistence of those rich people who fund the Republican party and who want to get richer and richer at your expense.
Republicans obviously can’t tell you what they are up to or who they answer to, so they made up this story about women, African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, which makes you look like bigots and sexists, which you’re not. You are just the victim of a Republican/rich people misdirection play. You probably voted for Trump just to kick the establishment or the 1% in the teeth, but unfortunately, Trump is part of that establishment and he is certainly not going to make things better for you. Even if he cared about anyone but himself, the Republicans who control the Congress are controlled by the same rich contributors they always have been. Those contributors are going get Republicans to pass law after law which makes them richer and you poorer and which Trump won’t veto.
Trump have never run a government and never reads. He’s a salesman, so he’s going to surround himself with the very Republican politicians and lobbyists who put you in your current mess. Those people are going to tell him what the 1% wants and how giving it to them will benefit him. For example, Trump’s tax cuts plan makes him richer, but will make you poorer since Republicans will want to pay for it, in part, by cutting your social security and Medicare benefits.
Worse, the Republican Congress is already at work with the lobbyists for the CEO’s, the Chamber of Commerce and the 1% people who have been screwing you for decades to pass laws that will make them even richer and you even poorer. Republicans will pass laws that will continue to be move money from government services and benefits that you count on to businesses which kickback contributions to the Republican party. When the Republican Congress passes these laws, Trump will just sign them because he doesn’t not care about you, and doesn’t understand the way these laws have twisted the economy against you. Also, because he is part of the 1%, he won’t question why CEO’s, the Chamber of Commerce and the super-rich want these laws. Even Trump’s infrastructure plan won’t create jobs for you, but will allow CEO’s to make more money from existing projects.
While all this is going on, the government regulations and agencies, which have protected you from the worst of the scams used by CEO’s to take your money, will be gutted by the Republicans and lobbyists that Trump will appoint to all the departments and agencies of the government. These Republican officials will take their directions from the CEO’s, Chamber of Commerce and the 1%. They certainly will not listen to you or consider whether or not the changes they are making will hurt you. These Republican officials will describe the regulations they are changing so you end up poorer as “job-killing” regulations, while in fact, they are merely “CEO bonus-killing regulations”. CEO’s like regulations that make them richer and protect them from lawsuits by you for having cheated you in any of a thousand ways, so you can expect more regulations of that kind.
After you see how little Trump and the Republicans change your economic situation over the next two years, you may want to consider voting in 2018 for candidates who back different policies.
Sincerely yours,
A Friend