The PEU-ization of America has been furthered by the U.S. Supreme Court, hereafter referred to as the Supremes. Campaign finance restrictions continue to come down as "money is speech."
Former private equity underwriter (PEU) J.D. Vance (Narya Capital & Mithril Capital Management) helped bring the campaign finance lawsuit in 2022 when he was a member of the Senate.
The 2024 election saw TechGod Elon Musk spend over $290 million to get his favored candidates elected.
The Carlyle Group located in Washington, D.C. in 1987 to access Uncle Sam's wallet and lever their political contacts for preferential treatment across the board. Carlyle was legendary for hiring former government officials would could lobby their contacts without officially being a lobbyist. TechGods have recently copied Carlyle in this regard.
Carlyle hired the former General Counsel for the CIA as it launched a new defense fund, Carlyle Defense and Reindustrialization Partners, based in Luxembourg.
The Supremes "money as speech" does not have an elevating history in the U.S. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence as a young man. The elder version used his slaves for collateral for a loan, when he had access to riches from the estate of a dear friend. The one condition for Jefferson to access the proceeds? Free his slaves.
Founding Father Jefferson borrowed money so he could keep his slaves, even using them as a seizable asset to garner the loan. That's a suppression of freedom for the "lesser people" of that time as slaves counted as one third of a person.
Speech is speech. Money is money. Conflating the two seems to be a form of garbage, which is currently widespread at the ruling class level.
Speech is money bolsters the current power structure where politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one and for that the common person suffers.
