We talk about the pervasive corruption of the Trump administration, but the big stuff seems so complex, it’s hard to explain. It is. Read George Packer’s piece in The Atlantic. The focus is on the Silicon billionaire David Sachs, until recently Trump’s main man on cryptocurrency and AI. He and his fellow tech billionaires are with Trump for one reason.
Money, big money and no check on them. Democracy can be a nuisance to them and inequality they think can only be solved by innovation from an unbridled tech industry. Memo to government from them, get the hell out of the way unless we need you to protect us. On foreign policy, Saxe, I suppose not surprisingly, is less sympathetic to Ukraine, a democracy, and more to Russia and Putin.
The war, he claims, is all the fault of the Russian hoax, which of course was not a hoax. Sachs, who recently stepped aside, for now at least, was, George Packer writes, in a corrupt clown show, one where it’s quote, impossible to distinguish public policy from private venality. One expert, Council Packer, don’t talk about or write about conflicts of interest.
It’s so much bigger than that. It is.
It is human nature to think what benefits you most is A Good Thing For All.
It is the job of the community, via government, to define what actually does serve the common interest best. The needs of the many.
In the USA we are seeing what happens when government fails in its duty, grows lax and self indulgent, and then is usurped by greed; all the checks and balances suborned or undermined.
No thanks.