We work against our own best interests.
Billionaires now have an outsized influence on our politics. They have so much power that just a few are impacting our daily lives in ways that just a few years back would have been unimaginable.
Is there any doubt that the boys at Google have promoted Left Wing narratives and dampened both Right Wing points-of-view and stories to skew election results? Did they not dampen all information on the Hunter laptop right before an election and promote the “50 Security State Officials say” narrative? Of course they did.
Can we not readily see that George Soros has poured huge amounts of campaign dollars behind far Left activist DA’s in cities across the US, resulting in an entirely new paradigm where charging criminals is concerned. This has resulted in a revolving door justice, where perpetrators are let out on “no cash bail” rules only to commit crimes again, and again. The victims are victims of George Soros every bit as they are the DA he help elect, as well as the criminal they had the misfortune to run into.
Mark Zuckerberg spent four hundred million dollars in Wisconsin alone to effectively take-over the office of elections and make the state blue. It is well documented. Look it up. One man swung the state with his dollars in the last election. We may all have one vote, and yours in Wisconsin may have “cancelled” a single Zuckerberg vote, but you can’t compete with the machine of votes he created.
Jeff Bezos ex-wife, having received billions in the settlement and never having to actually work a job again has poured hundreds of millions into Left Wing causes. She isn’t alone, Steve Jobs ex-wife has poured hundreds of millions into not only Left Wing causes but she is the money behind “The Atlantic”, a far Left Wing online site that holds sway in public opinion on the Left. She single-handedly keeps that propaganda machine for the Left wide open and shilling, shilling, shilling for the Left.
The amount of money the Hollywood Left has poured into Democratic politics runs into the hundreds of millions. Every major Democrat has Jeff Katzenberg on speed dial. Along with Barry Diller, David Geffen, and many, many more.
The two dozen billionaires that you and I can sit and list can all get our President on the phone in minutes. You can’t. I can’t. Not a chance. They have outsized bank accounts that create outsized influence.
There was a time not so long ago that there was an air of excitement in political conventions, and on Election Day an air of electricity, as if anything can happen.
I can vividly recall watching the 1968 Democratic political convention from Chicago, where outside riots were taking place over Vietnam, and race relations in the US, and inside the smoke filled hall there was a palpable feeling that chaos could break out at any second. As if a fever could overtake the delegation and the fantastical, incredible, unbelievable could result. A VP choice from out-of-nowhere, a controversial plank endorsed directly from the candidate himself at the podium.
Today everything is so well scripted, laid out in advance, and orderly that no one watches the conventions they are an anachronism, best left to the past century.
Billionaires have done the choosing well in advance. The “smart money” has already spoken. Plans are cemented, equivocation has left the building.
And there you sit.
Ordering off of Amazon, googling your favorite topics, all on your MAC or PC, and all at once enriching Bezos, Page and Brin, the Jobs family, and Bill Gates, bad actors all, who cancel out your vote writing a check for more than you will make in a lifetime, to maintain a system that favors them, harms you tremendously, and keeps cash flowing to them all in numbers so large that the check they wrote to negate your vote has already been replaced into their bank account before I can finish this paragraph.
And then you download a movie on Prime to watch on your PC enriching Gates and Bezos even more. Seeing absolutely no connection to your behavior and the state of our country at all.
Why get dressed to go down or out to the local market for a few items, or shopping at the local dress shop when ordering off of Amazon is so damn easy. Why stop at the local coffee shop when a Starbucks is on every corner.
Our lives have become so entwined with activist billionaires that all day every day we enrich them absent a thought. As store fronts close due to lack of business, homeless move onto the sidewalks in front of the shuttered stores, and you walk out of your building disgusted that “they” allowed all this degradation around you to spring up absolving yourself of all responsibility. You didn’t frequent the Asian restaurant downstairs you ordered chain Grub Hub from the safety and comfort of your apartment. You never entered the small boutique clothing store, or the bodega, you speed walked to the Starbucks, you ordered from Amazon. And now you have to step over needles and homeless. And it is “their fault”.
And every one of those billionaires want cheap labor, so they want the borders wide open, Bezos has fought unionization at his warehouses at every turn as hard as possible, you want the borders closed but keep buying, and buying, and buying. Why packages pile up daily on the front stoop. the doorman rings every day, you are tired of the added tip paid to have him bring them to your door.
You want the border closed but your money is funneled by the hour to keep them open.
And the system has grown so large, and in charge, I see no way it can be brought down.
I have to go now. Door Dash is coming up the walk with my food order, and the Prime truck just pulled up and blocked him into my driveway. Gonna huddle on the sofa, eat, and watch a Netflix movie. But hey everyone, vote Republican!
Might as well order up some THC gummies. That’s what Winston Smith would do.