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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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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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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.