America’s political sensibilities are moving to the right, along with many other counties like Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and that’s sad, but it’s a choice that the people of the United States are free to make. My problem isn’t so much that we’re surrounded by a growing number of poorly educated racists, but that, in addition to the “contemptible fools,” to quote Elon Musk, we live among a much smaller group of billionaires who couldn’t care less about the well-being of the common American, much less the environment, and are dominating public policy in Washington.
Worst of all, Donald Trump, a convicted felon, adjudicated sex abuser, and indicted traitor to his country, is at the heart of this transition. I think many people, myself included, would be better able to deal with this if a criminal sociopath weren’t at the movement’s very core.
Marc Andreessen, who’s been at the forefront of the tech industry since the dawn of the Internet 30 years ago, donated $4.5 million to Trump’s campaign, and in the video below he explains why.
