🐍 They Rigged It
A Trauma-Informed Guide to Trump’s Projection – Part Two
🐍 Part 2 of The Snake Series
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My father was big into local and statewide politics.
If things didn’t go his way, it was rigged.
If he lost at the horse track—same thing: rigged.
“They rigged it.”
“The fix was in.”
The ominous “They” was always to blame.
That was the outward message.
The inward message was more insidious:
If your opponent gets the best of you, it’s because they cheated.
You never had a bad idea or a weak proposal—they took it from you.
It didn’t take me long to figure out I’d have to disregard his “lessons” and learn to trust my own judgment.
That kind of thinking doesn’t teach resilience.
It teaches suspicion and self-protection.
It wasn’t strength—it was just survival—loud, brittle, and scared underneath.
