How does an emotional abuser use your own professional success or work ethic as a tool to keep you trapped?

Why do people with lower earnings get a higher percentage of their average indexed monthly earnings in Social Security benefits?
Will Trump now encourage more disaffected Democrats to betray their party, by endorsing a Republican candidate akin to Haley Stevens' action, or is this all too little, too late to stop the Democrat tsunami coming Trump's way? Is Trump doomed?
Is it fair to blame Rashta, a runaway slave in the drama The Remarried Empress, for accepting the emperor's offer to become his mistress?
If the US having a parliamentary system would have prevented Trump from becoming a dictator, how come dictators like Orban are not removed quickly?