CHANNELING JOE

A letter to Trump folks.

 

I honestly get why you voted for him. He identified your real troubles and promised he knew how to fix them and that he cared. Neither of those things turned out to be true. He gave you promises and in some cases someone to blame for your troubles. I get it. I respect you desire to make your life and your family’s life better. 

 

Even though you saw his dishonesty in some areas and his disrespect, you gave him the benefit of the doubt. You trusted that he would grow in to the presidency and wouldn’t forget his promises to you.  I’m truly sorry that it didn’t happen. Instead he gave huge tax breaks and favors to the rich and to friends and family and ignored his promises to you. I can’ t read his heart and know if he’s capable of the kind of care and empathy he promised. It doesn’t matter. It didn’t happen. 

 

Now it’s annoying when friends and family try to show you how wrong you were and that you have basically been abandoned in favor of those like him. It’s never easy to face that you might have made a mistake and more troubling when it keeps being pointed out to you.

 

I’m not going to make you unrealistic promises. And blame? there’s enough to go around, but I want to focus on solutions. My promise is to focus on health and jobs, and I will respect you enough to tell you the truth and not use you to pump up my own ego. We’ve been put in a bad hole and we need to work together to dig out.

 

You can see in your own communities jobs that need to be done to improve our infrastructure and employ people at all levels. Recouping some of the tax gift he gave to the 1% could fund many of those projects. But he has even sold short many of the generous wealthy in this country. believing them to be as greedy and self-serving as he is. There are many people in our country with great wealth who have done great things. With the right recognition and encouragement, they are ready to do more. They appreciate that this country has offered them the opportunity to build that wealth and they want to give back. Some understand that real power isn’t just in accumulating more wealth or having a house with 20 bedroom or 20 bathrooms, it is in seeing what you have created in society’s well-being by your generosity and awareness. They understand that it’s better when everyonedoes better. Their legacy is not a big bank account or a big house. It’s supporting small business, education or hospitals. 

 

There is so much wealth in this country in physical resources and in heart and intelligence. Let’s work together to make it a more level playing field and bring together the human and physical resources of this country. God, I want to be part of that and want you to join me in creating that. We all want to feel like we belong and that we are part of something. I’m asking you to be part of something honest and positive and that will make you and your children proud.