This is a fascinating dissection of the force arrayed against us. The fact that it will take you a while to get through it reinforces the challenges of the battle space. Don’t let the leftist sympathies of the author dissuade you from the attempt; we need more leftists to wake up to the absurdity of their RESIST T-shirts. As for the right, if the left has so fully invested in controlling the party system/political activism paradigm to the extent this piece details, perhaps our best, or maybe only, hope is to devote our efforts towards devising a new and unanticipated paradigm?
The Billionaire Takeover of Civil Society, by Roslyn Fuller, January 29, 2021
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/29/the-billionaire-takeover-of-civil-society/
Selected excerpts below. I urge you to read the whole thing:
“…let’s abandon the pretence that these funders are keen on deconstructing their own power. No, they have created an end-to-end web of political institutions, and a dependent hand-out culture, where nothing happens without money and a tsunami of gushing praise for those brave enough to ‘speak truth’ to the power that pays their salary… and continues to do so.
“After all the screaming about the Koch brothers’ insidious influence on politics, it turns out that, for some, the near naked exercise of oligarchic power wasn’t the issue at all. It was that the wrong people were doing it. As much as they shouted about a commitment to democracy, they were only really ever committed to getting their own way. And they have – proudly – out-oligarched their enemies.
“With a twist.
“…‘philanthropists’ like Omidyar and Murdoch II are set on changing your life for ‘the greater good’. They have convinced themselves that, since they are on a holy mission, everything they do and all the money they expend in pursuit of those goals is somehow justified. The ruthless businessmen of yesteryear are being replaced by priests of higher morals who just happen to be phenomenally rich. The oldies pursued their interests selfishly – the newbies are convinced that their interests are your interests…”
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“The oldies pursued their interests selfishly – the newbies are convinced that their interests are your interests…”
Nothing more frightening than that as expressed so perfectly by C.S. Lewis:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis