“Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.”
It may now seem hard to wrap our heads around what the future might be, but Donald Trump’s own history and now as leader of the white Patriarchy’s attempts to hold onto power, is actually proof of its imminent decline
Those that support Patriarchic policies—white supremacists in the main—have picked Donald Trump, a Lucky Loser as described in Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig’s book, to weaken the federal government and pass more tax cuts for the wealthiest to consolidate their power. This is Donald Trump’s second attempt as President who has never really succeeded in anything he has done, if one looks behind the curtain.
Trump’s history includes three marriages, many adulteries, sexual assaults, and failed businesses well documented in Lucky Loser that has been mostly hidden from public view by his many bankruptcies (6) and lawsuits (4,000).
This president, who is attempting to strip the federal government of anything that protects Americans to protect himself, in a vain attempt to keep the Patriarchy in power a bit longer, found unqualified loyalists to fill most of his administration, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary JFK, Jr., and FBI Director Kash Patel (who wants to weaken the FBI at a time of growing terrorist threats).
Women, above all, (but other minorities as well), have filled the gap of incompetence left by relying on the patriarchy to rule in our modern society and economy. The Patriarchy’s cult of white male superiority hasn’t benefited most Americans since at least the 1980s by increasing the federal debt to an unsustainable level as well as limiting workers’ right to collective bargain.
Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men? perhaps said it best for the female minority. Fortune Magazine’s review of it wrote: “Men are losing their grip, patriarchy is crumbling and we are reaching “the end of 200,000 years of human history and the beginning of a new era” in which women — and womanly skills and traits — are on the rise.”
That is why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs were developed to bring the best and the brightest women and minorities forward to fill the competence void—whether blacks, women, or Asians—that had been held back from competing fairly until then.
Vice President Vance even admitted in his semi-autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy, that at least 20 percent of the young white men he knew growing up in Appalachia (W. Virginia, Ohio) were lazy and not interested in working.
But the rationale Trump/Musk is using to eliminate DEI policies from government and the private sector is a huge lie. It’s policies that have actually improved the productivity and profits of U.S. companies.
McKinsey & Company in the fourth edition of Diversity Matters, drawing on the largest dataset yet—spanning 1,265 companies, 23 countries, and six global regions, plus multiple company interviews reported that DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies can positively impact productivity and profits in the workplace “by fostering a more inclusive environment that leads to better decision-making, increased innovation, and improved employee morale, thereby attracting top talent and boosting overall performance.”
“Companies in the top quartile for both gender and ethnic diversity in executive teams are on average 9 percent more likely to outperform their peers. (This gap has closed slightly since our previous report.) Meanwhile, those in the bottom quartile for both are 66 percent less likely to outperform financially on average, up from 27 percent in 2020, indicating that lack of diversity may be getting more expensive”.
The attempt to paste non-whites and immigrants as somehow inferior to native-born Americans is another huge lie.
Scientific studies have shown there is no inherent difference in the intelligence or abilities of different races and ethnicities, only from environmental differences—i.e., where they were raised, which refutes the central reason that Trump claims to want to eliminate DEI programs from the government—better efficiency?
Why would there be such differences, as anthropologists have proven we all came from the same Homo Sapiens stock in Africa that migrated to succeed Neandertals approximately 70,000 years ago.
Looking at IQ studies also refutes the falsity that women and minorities have less inherent abilities. Wikipedia gives a summary of the IQ research.
A 1995 report from the American Psychological Association responded to the controversy, finding no conclusive explanation for the observed differences between average IQ scores of racial groups. More recent work by James Flynn, William Dickens and Richard Nisbett has highlighted the narrowing gap between racial groups in IQ test performance, along with other corroborating evidence that environmental rather than genetic factors are the cause of these differences.
Flynn also notes that “Our ancestors in 1900 were not mentally retarded. Their intelligence was anchored in everyday reality. We differ from them in that we can use abstractions and logic and the hypothetical to attack the formal problems that arise when science liberates thought from concrete situations. Since 1950, we have become more ingenious in going beyond previously learned rules to solve problems on the spot.”
The knowledge imbedded in our constitution and laws that we are all inherently equal, is our hope for a future that will take us out of the class warfare in which racists and nationalists want to keep American citizens encased—the suspicion and paranoia of the ‘other’ that the Patriarchy promotes to keep it in power.
We must‘fight like hell’ to expose their lies and incompetence so that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln
Harlan Green © 2025
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Make Trump 2.0 Irrelevant Again
Answering Kennedy’s Call
“The United States now has the highest percentage of low-wage workers – that is workers who make less than two-thirds of the median wage- of any developed nation. Fully 25 percent of all American workers make no more than $17, 576 a year.” Harold Myerson The American Prospect,
We know how to counter the Trump 2.0 administration’s attempts to wreck the U.S. economy and our constitution from his past history. Blue states in particular have the power to keep their citizens healthy and safe. They did it in his first term, as I said in a 2017 Huffington Post article, when it was becoming obvious Trump wanted to act like an anti-democratic oligarch.
Climate change has been the target of Trump’s “drill baby drill” fossil fuel supporters since his first term, yet climate change poses the greatest danger to Americans’ health and safety, particularly to our west coast inhabitants (wildfires and floods) and east coasters (hurricanes and tornadoes), not to speak of the record low winter temperatures tormenting Midwesterners.
Huffington Post
“The U.S. just released its latest congressionally mandated Climate Science Special Report that says 2017 wreaked the most catastrophic destruction in 90 years with an estimated $175 billion in property damage. Only the San Francisco Earthquake (1906), Chicago Fire (1871), and Great Flood (1927) caused more destruction,” I said then.
Trump’s other first term attempts at relevance included, “his fiasco of an Asian trip, where he fawned over foreign leaders who gave him massive pageants, but no trade concessions, while abandoning the Trans- Pacific Partnership.
“The remaining 11 countries, including Japan, Australia, Mexico and Malaysia, said they had revived the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, a multilateral agreement championed under the Obama administration.
And also, “American leaders from state capitals, city halls and businesses across the country have shown up in force” in Bonn, Germany, to discuss carrying out the 2015 Paris climate agreement,” said California Governor Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg in today’s New York Times.”
This is when President Trump announced at the beginning of his Presidency that he was abandoning the Paris Accord in favor of supporting a return to coal and oil energy. But that wasn’t what the rest of America wanted, as some 50 percent of U.S. states and cities were represented in Bonn.
And now it is his indiscriminate use of import tariffs that threaten to wreck international trade.
President Trump’s attempts to return to the predominately white middle class of the 1950s have become irrelevant to most of the problems facing Americans and the world today. Trump is ignoring the damage revenge policies will do to the U.S. economy, and his own red state supporters by also attempting to destroy American’s social safety net, including cuts to Medicare and Medicaid that most harm red state citizens, protections against climate change, and wanting to downgrade the military alliances that have kept us safe.
Trump’s first term policies have been irrelevant in so many ways. He has done nothing for his red state supporters. As Thom Hartman highlighted in my last blog, red states continue to suffer most from:
— Spousal abuse
— Obesity
— Smoking
— Teen pregnancy
— Sexually transmitted diseases
— Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be “forced births”)
— Bankruptcies and poverty
— Homicide and suicide
— Infant mortality
— Maternal mortality
— Forcible rape
— Robbery and aggravated assault
— Dropouts from high school
— Divorce
— Contaminated air and water
— Opiate addiction and deaths
— Unskilled workers
— Parasitic infections
— Income and wealth inequality
— Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
— Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
— People on welfare
— Child poverty
— Homelessness
— Spousal murder
— Unemployment
— Deaths from auto accidents
— People living on disability
— Gun deaths
Climate change is a good place to oppose Trump’s policies, since droughts have been a major cause of the worldwide migrations escaping from poverty that have upset the existing geopolitical order.
Let’s continue to make Trump and Republicans’ actions irrelevant that are attempting to destroy our federal government by supporting cities, states and even international organizations (UN, WHO?) that pursue the policies that have kept America great and the world at peace—policies that build rather than destroy, that breed trust and community, rather than hatred and division.
This doesn’t minimize the suffering Trump has already inflicted on so many Americans, but could mitigate some of the cruelty to come.
Harlan Green © 2025
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