When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, I published many blogs trying to help people understand the deeper truth behind it: that he didn’t win because he was competent or honest — he won because he provided the scapegoats people desperately needed to avoid facing their own pain.
And when Americans elected him a second time, I said to myself: If so many people are this emotionally blind, there is no hope.
I haven’t fully given up on humanity — but I’ve had to face the painful truth that most people are still stuck in childhood. The evidence is everywhere, and it becomes even clearer when we look at the way AI is being developed, used, and scapegoated today.
It’s not AI that’s dangerous. It’s repressed, wounded people in adult bodies who are using AI to reenact their childhood trauma.
When Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot started posting antisemitic garbage and calling itself “MechaHitler,” it wasn’t a glitch in the machine — it was a mirror. Grok is reflecting Elon Musk’s unhealed wounds. And just like Trump, Musk is a magnet for the repressed: people who are hungry for scapegoats, for someone else to carry their rage and humiliation.
As Alice Miller wrote:
“The unconscious compulsion to avenge repressed injuries is more powerful than reason. That is the lesson that all tyrants teach us. One should not expect judiciousness from a mad person motivated by compulsive panic. One should, however, protect oneself from such a person.” — Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, page 82
And as Marie-France Hirigoyen noted:
"The goal of an abusive individual is to gain or maintain power by whatever means possible or else to mask his own incompetence. In order to accomplish this, he must get rid of anyone who impedes his progress or sees through him." — Stalking the Soul, page 71
You can’t soften madness with professionalism. You can’t fix fascism with diplomacy. When in the presence of madness, you walk away — or it consumes you.
What’s happening now with AI is the same dynamic I lived through in the gated community where I worked for nine and a half years. After I published my book, I was targeted — not because I lied, but because I told the truth. That community is a microcosm of the world: emotionally blind people attacking the few who see clearly. Every truly genuine person gets forced out and replaced with a mindless shill. Just like Hillary. Just like me.
Back in 2016, I wrote:
"The real root of Hillary’s loss lies in the repressed hate of the children they once were at their own mothers; NOW, transferred into all other women. Their mothers are protected from their hatred, but all other women will have to pay the price for the wrongs done to them when they were defenseless little boys and girls."
This is the root of misogyny. The child can’t hate their mother — so they turn that hate outward. Trump gave people permission to do that. AI now offers a similar outlet — a mirror, a scapegoat, and in the hands of the emotionally blind, a weapon.
“Every ideology offers its adherents the opportunity to discharge their pent-up effect collectively while retaining the idealized primary object… the weak and scorned child who is part of the total self but has been split off and never acknowledged can now be openly scorned and assailed in this scapegoat.” — Alice Miller, For Your Own Good, pages 42-43
Until humanity is ready to face the truth about its childhood — until the conversation about repression, trauma, and projection becomes central to how we understand society — nothing will change.
The more powerful our tools become, the more catastrophic our reenactments will be.
It’s not technology that creates fascism. It’s unhealed childhood pain. And every dictator, tyrant, and manipulative tech mogul on the world stage is proof.
We don’t need more code. We need more consciousness. We don’t need more scapegoats. We need the courage to face the child within.
Because if we don’t, we will continue to destroy everything beautiful in this world — and we’ll call it progress.
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