Been idly compiling a “billionaire political ideologies” dossier (Koch, Soros, Mercer, Thiel...)
Starting to think billionaire-vs-billionaire is not the best way for a society to do its political thinking
How do you advance political thought without billionaire $ fueling it?
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The axis here is populism vs elitism. Do you really want more populism?
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Don’t forget, trumpism may be “populist” but it’s entirely billionaire created.
Vertical horseshoe theory. Fuck-you rich and hopeless poor vs middle class with a reason to keep up a civil society, since they can’t afford private islands, but don’t want slums either
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Billionaire created, like by Trump himself? Trump is just the most successful of the wave of populists -- Le Pen, Corbyn, Sanders, Brexiters, Modi -- and is the only rich one
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Huh? See a lot of elites hanging out on Alex Jones?
Trump rode the Koch brothers out of the controlling class of the GOP. Ironically, the Kochs' long-running institution bankrolling (Cato, American Heritage, etc) saved them. Few Trumpy cabinet members & no junior / senior staff
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Yet he’s got people like Adelson, and it was the Mercers who bankrolled Breitbart. And Fox is not Red Public Television. Nor is talk radio.
Trump hacked the Kochs sure, but remember it was the Koch’s who helped create the valuable hack able asset.

