Why Supporting Trump Is a Sign that You Have Zero Self-Worth
When are you going to figure out that you haven't been "cheated" and the world isn't "unfair" and that the people you most respect are lying to you?
I grew up with a lot of people who had zero self-worth. I know how they behave. These are usually people who are brash, who are insanely competitive, and who deride everything they see.
A person with zero self-worth is incapable of giving you a compliment. If they give you a compliment, it’s like an admission that they are lacking. So, they treat you to insults and then try to pass it off as an attempt at interaction.
It’s the most pathetic thing in the world.
People with zero self-worth are insanely competitive. The reason is that they are so desperate to like themselves, that they scramble for anything that gives them a tiny shot of dopamine.
These are the types of adults that will run over a four year old in order to score a touchdown in a family game of football on Thanksgiving. Then they stand there flexing in the end zone as if their achievement means something.
You can’t play board games with people who have zero self-worth. If they start to lose, they claim the game was rigged. They flip the table. They storm out of the room. If chance should conspire to allow them to win, you’ll never hear the end of it. They’ll be bringing it up fifteen years later. “Dude, remember how I destroyed you in that game of Monopoly?”
“No, I don’t remember. It doesn’t matter. Nobody cares!”
People with zero self-worth seek out the praise of individuals they admire. They’re willing to subjugate themselves before them. They’ll crawl through mud. They’ll get down on their knees and beg. They’re so desperate to achieve the approval of a revered figure that they’ll go against every other belief they claim to harbor.
They’ll do whatever they’re told to do.
They’ll attack government buildings.
They’ll engage in violence.
They’ll permanently destroy their own lives, because they have absolutely nothing to live for.
People with zero self-worth drive around in obnoxiously loud pickup trucks that belch huge clouds of noxious fumes into the atmosphere. They shove enormous flags with profanities into the tail gate.
They drive around with a dumb smile on their face because they want people to look at them. It doesn’t matter if everyone is looking at them with disgust.
Being a complete jackass in public is the only way they know how to get attention. They have zero self-worth, they don’t have any idea how to do anything that’s healthy or productive.
People with zero self-worth crave a strong leader to tell them what to do. At the heart of everything, they are pathetic and insecure. They don’t trust their own beliefs. They are incapable of deciding anything for themselves.
They want the world reduced to tiny sound bites so that they can understand. They walk around repeating nonsensical two or three word slogans to themselves to maintain their heading. They don’t want nuance, they want orders.
People with zero self-worth feel compelled to mock new ideas. They’ll laugh loud and long and hard. They’ll laugh so they don’t have to listen to long and confusing explanations.
People with zero self-worth take comfort in their assessment that the world is binary. To them, all of the human experience is a choice between two things.
You are either “good” or you are “evil.”
You are either “male” or you are “female.”
You are either “straight” or you are “gay.”
You are either “patriotic” or you are a “terrorist.”
Anything that falls into the gray area that represents the midpoint between their two accepted extremes makes them extremely uncomfortable. They’re afraid because they need the direction of their authority figure. They can’t make complex decisions on their own. They’re terrified that they might choose the wrong thing and offend their patriarch.
People with zero self-worth respond to confusion with violence. They see something they don’t understand and they want to kill it. There’s no leeway for patience. There’s no leeway for study. Their thinking is binary. Things that they know are considered “good.” Things that they don’t know are considered “bad.”
They believe that anything that’s “bad” must be destroyed.
They believe that by destroying everything “bad” it makes them “good.”
They hope that by becoming “good” they will achieve self-worth.
But the path to self-worth is not reductive.
The path to self-worth is not through oversimplifying the world.
The path to self-worth comes from embracing everything Trump supporters have been trained to hate. People of zero self-worth are tricked into following a path that will take them in the opposite direction from where they want to go.
People of zero self-worth make malicious demagogues powerful.
Malicious demagogues serve up a recipe of praise and mockery that will prevent people of zero self-worth from ever feeling any life satisfaction. Malicious demagogues create an “other,” and they direct the attention of people of zero self-worth to blame the “other” for all their problems.
But the “other” is not to blame.
People of zero self-worth have zero self-worth because they persist in the delusional belief that they’re great, and perfect, and superior, and nothing is wrong.
The truth is that nothing could be more wrong than the torment of people of zero self-worth.
I do feel sympathy for them.
But I won’t allow them to draw us down into their misery.
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If I may add, people with zero self worth often join cults. MAGA is Exhibit A. To believe in a savior who is a felonious degenerate grifter fascist, how much self worth does a person have? I believe the correct answer is: Zero.
Anyway, I really got a kick out of your clever title and article. I enjoyed how you wove tidbits matching trump in, around, and throughout the entire post very, ahem, quietly so as to capture tRUMPophiles? who might be reading somewhat off guard? That may not have been your intent, but I picked up on it, and by the time I finished reading I was laughing out loud. I appreciate how you state matter-of-factly what you are addressing but there seems to always be a bit of tongue in cheek for the more advanced reader. Your pieces are informative and enjoyable to read