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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Ideologically populism is actually just wealth-elitism in disguise since it has no indie intellectual capacity (vertical horseshoe theory)
Cultural elitism is middle-class in funding (tax-funded higher education) and roots.
Ie it’s middle class ideology vs rich ideology
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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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Trumps wealth is not actually a factor. He only loaned his own campaign $10 million.
The billionaire set buys all these candidates.
Very rare to see a true populist win based on funding from poor/middle-class. I don’t know Bernie’s profile, but see the AAP in India
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