A Jane Doe liked the proposals of a presidential candidate and decided to support him.
To guarantee transparency of election backing and to reduce corruption, Meanwhile, legislature passed regulations limiting the amount of money that Jane can straight contribute to the election run of the selected candidate.
Jane thus forms a Political Action Committee (PAC) and collects money from relatives and acquaintances. She's not allowed to take money from corporations and unions. Through PAC, Jane can donate no more than $5,000 to her prepaid candidate.
However, the ultimate Court decides that while the government may limit the amount of money that Jane can give to a politician, he must not limit the words that Jane can say about him. Jane He can spend as much money as he wants, To tell another people how fantastic her candidate is. That's freedom of speech.
For this purpose, Jane creates a Super PAC that collects donations from relatives, friends and another curious parties – besides from corporations. For that money, he prints flyers and hangs them in the city. Super PAC can spend an unlimited amount of money on this, due to the fact that Jane has the right to praise her candidate as frequently and as loudly as she thinks appropriate. In Super PAC theory, he cannot only coordinate his actions straight with the candidate.
Thus the ultimate Court's decision on a 2010 case known as Citizens United can be explained to a five-year-old, convincing him that the strategy is logical and fair. Adults had no illusions about the harmfulness of this judgement and the inevitability of pathologies which it led to.
Since the judgement in the Citizens United case, billions of dollars have been pumped into each political run from corporations, and each subsequent year beats the evidence set in the erstwhile year. SuperPAC, which on paper operate without agreement with the promoted candidate, became a method of rich people to buy political influence.
Under the PAC and Super PAC laws, they have a work to disclose who supports them and what amounts, but donors who want to stay anonymous have many ways to hide their identity. First, they establish (with their hands) nonprofit organizations that are not obliged to disclose the data of their donors. Later these organizations transfer money to a selected candidate.
As a nonprofit, for example, the National firearm Association, an highly influential organization promoting the right to own weapons, passing millions of dollars to conservative committees without revealing from whom they come. This phenomenon, known as “dark money”, was well described by investigative writer Jane Meyer in an equally monumental and depressing position Dark Money: The Hidden past of the Billionaires Behind the emergence of the extremist Right.
Mayer describes how billionaires corrupted judges, politicians, and officials, utilizing legal and financial intricacies to do this through charities, think tanks, shell companies and seemingly bottom-up organizations (such as Party Tea Movement). Mayer accurately outlines a horrifying network of influences of America's richest people, thanks to which they de facto control the country and avoid work for any, insignificant and little insignificant wrongdoing.
One of the many nonprofit organizations that marked this year's U.S. election run is Citizens for Sanity, founded in mid-2022. An avalanche of apocalyptic ads The political warned Americans against the leftist panic of sneaky transgenders and bloodthirsty immigrants who want to fund citizens Democrats. 1 of the organization's targets was Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. Brown, president of the legislature Banking Commission, is simply a sharp critic of the cryptocurrency industry. It regularly exposes the risks they pose to the average consumer, advocates supervision and regulation of the industry. In this year's legislature election, Brown lost to a Republican candidate in his state.
Citizens for Sanity did not uncover donor identity, but 1 of the organizations that supported it with millions of dollars was Building America’s Future. And Building America’s Future got over $50 million from Elona Muska.
Before Musk began publically supporting Trump, he supported conservative politicians somewhat little openly. He's got the run going. Rona DeSantisa 10 million through religion & Strong Policies and secretly He donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. to be removed from his post as prosecutor in Travis County, Texas, who won office with the support of politician donor George Soros.
Musk created his Super PAC named America PAC and was the only donor to fund it with $75 million. Money was not to be spent in the conventional way for Super PAC – for a run in the media. Musk dreamt up an army of volunteers working in the field, walking from door to door and urging people to vote.
Such a strategy was made possible by a fresh decision of the national Election Commission, which allows the candidate's election staff and the theoretically independent Super PAC to share electoral data with each other, making it easier to coordinate activities in the field. This blurs another boundary between the run and Super PAC, which, let us remind you, thanks to Citizens United can spend unlimited resources on its activities.
The actions of Musko gradually became increasingly transparent. He initially utilized loopholes and legal tricks utilized for decades by billionaires, trying to hide money flows for politicians. As time passed, however, he rejected appearances and took on the function of an influential rich man with a mission to revolutionize America with the blessing of the masses whose anger he embodies. Therefore, erstwhile in 2024 you read a decade previously published book Meyer, it strikes how outdated they seem Koch brothers' machinations in the face of fresh cleanup in the White House. Goodbye, Kochśmyrnica, hello, paypal mob!
The PayPala Mafia are creators and investors of the known payment system, with Peter Thiel at the head. PayPal, created, among another things, from ideological motives, as an alternate to conventional banking, made them fabulously rich and allowed to make further ventures specified as YouTube, LinkedIn or Yelp. In the eyes of many – and of their own – these achievements have elevated programmers and investors from Silicon Valley to the rank of modern aristocracy, having the legitimacy to make a fresh order. The outline of this fresh order was implanted in tech bros by Curtis Yarvin, a friend of Thiela's blogger and business partner, aspiring to be a philosophical backdrop of the PayPala mob.
Yarvin advocates replacing democracy with dictatorship and considers himself and others as avant-garde, which should regulation the country due to its intellectual qualities. “Everything that works was created in the monarchy. For example, iPhone," he said. Drawing from classics – Mises and Rothbard – presents a utopian imagination of a planet divided into tiny state, managed as corporations by technologistsbut with the free movement of citizens between them. If individual does not like his monarchy/corporation, he can go to the second.
What if 1 dictator tries to take over another state with force or bully the citizens? Yarvin is not responding to this, so he is either very naive, or he silently accepts the force essential to keep an optimal strategy according to him. It besides opposes the rights of minorities to fight for equality and non-discrimination, because, in the face of "natural" as it considers, inequality between people, the equality of rights of all citizens must be enforced by state intervention. Read only evil.
Trying to give its origins the appearance of a coherent philosophical system, attractive to the grown-up in the immaculate online communities of men, Yarvin invents pompous and even more hermetic terms. In his vision, evil focuses in the Cathedral (The Cathedral), a decentralised but coherent network of cultural and organization influences. It primarily includes elite academic communities, mainstream media, and another cultural centres that, according to Yarvin, perpetuate progressive ideologies.
One way to fight the Cathedral is by R.A.G.E. (retire all government employees), i.e. to quit as many officials as possible and thus to regulate the suppressing ideas of visionaries from Silicon Valley. Whoever understands the necessity of this revolution has achieved the Dark Enlightenment (Dark Delight)
The Dark Enlightenment was achieved by Marc Andreessen, a developer, Netscape browser creator and investor, among others, Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter and Coinbase, who, in consequence to the regulations of the industry, introduced by the Biden administration, published Techno-optimistic Manifesto, an exterminate essay promoting as unlimited technological advancement as the only way to universal prosperity.
"Our society has been subjected for six decades to a mass run of demoralisation – against technology and against life – under different names specified as existential risk, sustainable development, ESG, social responsibility, ... Technology ethics. Our enemy is statism, authoritarianism, collectivism, central planning, socialism. Our enemy is corruption, regulation, monopolies, cartels. Our enemies are institutions that were vital, energetic and truth-seeking in their youth, but are now compromised, corroded, and fallen, desperately blocking progress... Our enemy is slowdown, growth decline, depopulation – nihilistic wish, so fashionable among our elites, less people, little energy consumption and greater suffering and death.”
There may be a way to Dark Enlightenment, but this bloodless 1 led through legal financing of political campaigns. In 2021, Thiel invested over $10 million in Super PAC linked to the legislature run of his erstwhile worker movie Mithril Capital, J. D. Vance. Thiel's engagement went beyond financial support: he was the 1 who suggested Vance Trump. He accompanied the first 1 at a gathering with Trump in early 2021 – and Vance had previously declared himself 1 of the alleged Never Trumpers, groups of conservative politicians opposed to Trump's actions.
Thiel helped alleviate misunderstandings between politicians, and just before the nomination was announced, he and Musk called Trump to make certain their protégés were given a runner-up nomination. It would be a large success of the Dark Enlightenment due to the fact that its ideas are no alien to Vance.
"There's this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who wrote about these things," Vance said in podcast in 2021. He then explained what Trump should do if he again took over the presidency: “He should release all middle-level official, all government authoritative in the administration, and replace them with our people. And if the court tries to halt him, he should say: the chief justice of the country has given a judgement and must be enforced."
The PayPala Mafia has reached its point: Vance will become vice president, and Musk, along with another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy, will be head of the Government's Department of Efficiency, which has set itself the goal of reducing by at least 2 billion dollars the government's "waste", specified as the budgets of unbearable regulatory agencies that slow down the construction and firing of rockets.
Trump, having a vague thought of anything, should not be an obstacle to the implementation of the plans of the fresh priests of modernity, unless individual conflicts between the convinced president and those convinced of his uniqueness are involved. We're in for a peculiar time.
