The Age of Monsters – TPM – Talking Points Memo
We live in an era of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the Ellison family, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, the billions of various billionaires who do not have. This may look like a caustic and dramatic comment from me. Some of them are real monsters: musk, Trump, probably Thiel. In other cases, as with Zuckerberg, they are probably more or less normal and could even be correct for lunch with. But functionally, in the role they play and the power they exercise in our society, they are monsters. And the function of the Trump era was to finish them all together in a single training, first by the attraction and then by force.
This awareness began to approach me in the years that followed Citizens UnitedThe decision of the court, which essentially ended the significant law on the financing of campaigns in the United States. He came to the first reactions to Citizens United Or more specifically the expenses that this has made possible. The billionaires and the centimular began to obtain advertising and critical reactions to the scale of their expenses and the impact he had on the elections. The large -scale political gifts by the extremely rich were not new. He had just taken a half-century break. Maybe the difference was internet. Be that as it may, years after 2010 caused the idea that the very rich and extremely powerful should benefit from more protections, more confidentiality for their donation than ordinary people who could give $ 50 or even $ 5,000 near the candidate donation limit.
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