Ngokucacileyo, ukuNcitshiswa kwexabiso lentengo Umthetho awukhange utsale nevoti enye yeRiphabhlikhi kwiSenethi. (Kwaye ubuncinane enye iSenator yeDemokhrasiโuKyrsten Sinemaโwaqinisekisa ukuba amalungiselelo ayo erhafu ayengayi kunyusela irhafu kubantu abazizityebi.) Ngoba?
Sithetha kakhulu ngemali kwezopolitiko, kodwa kukho umahluko omkhulu kwaye uyakhula phakathi enkulu imali (iminikelo yephulo le-1 yezigidi zeedola okanye ngaphezulu), uninzi lwayo lugalela kwiingxowa zeRiphabhlikhi kunye amancinane imali (iminikelo yomntu ngamnye ye-200 yeedola okanye ngaphantsi), ngokuyininzi egalela kwiDemokhrasi. (Iinkampani bezinikezela kumacala omabini, ngokomlinganiselo olinganayo.)
Ukubaluleka kwalo mahluko kuyakhula.
Njengoko kusondele unyulo lwamaphakathi, umsantsa phakathi kwemithombo yomibini mkhulu kunangaphambili. Iidemokhrasi zidlula kude iiRiphabhlikhi kwiminikelo yeedola ezincinci. I iingxelo zamva nje (ukuya kutsho ngoJuni 30) bonisa, umzekelo, ukuba:
-EGeorgia, uSenator obambeleyo uRaphael Warnock uye wanyusa i-14 yezigidi zeerandi kwiminikelo emincinci; Umgqatswa weSenate yaseRiphabhlikhi uHerschel Walker ukhulise kuphela malunga nezigidi ezisibhozo zeerandi kwiminikelo emincinci.
-EFlorida, uVal Demings, umceli mngeni weDemokhrasi kuSenator uMarco Rubio, uye waphakamisa ngaphezu kwe-$ 24 yezigidi kwiminikelo encinci; URubio ngokwakhe uye wabika i-$ 12.7 yezigidi ngeminikelo encinci.
-E-Arizona, uSenator weDemocratic Alliance u-Mark Kelly umkhankaso wokhetho kwakhona unyuse phantse i-23 yezigidi zeedola kubaxhasi beedola ezincinci. Umceli mngeni wakhe we-GOP, uBlake Masters, ngaphantsi kwe-2 yezigidi zeedola kubaxhasi abancinci.
Kodwa abaxhasi bemali abakhulu be-GOP benza umahluko.
-Ibhiliyoni uPeter Thiel ukuza kuthi ga ngoku ugalele ngaphezulu kwe-25 yezigidi zeedola kumdyarho weBlake Masters eArizona kunye noJD Vance eOhio.
-Kenneth C. Griffin, i-CEO ye-giant hedge fund Citadel, i-bankrolling Republican super PACs malunga ne-50 yezigidi zeedola.
-Stephen A. Schwarzman, usihlalo we-giant hedge fund Blackstone, ukuza kuthi ga ngoku unikele ngezigidi ezingama-20 zeedola ezidityanisiweyo kwiNdlu enkulu kunye ne-Senate Republican super PAC.
-Indlalifa yebhanki uTimothy Mellon (inzala yomphangi u-Andrew Mellon) ukuza kuthi ga ngoku unikele ngeedola ezili-10 lezigidi kwi-House GOP super PAC.
-Ditto usozigidi uPatrick R. Ryan.
โUMiriam Adelson (umyeni wakhe, Sheldon Adelson, wayengomnye wabanikeli besisa be-GOP de wasweleka kulo nyaka uphelileyo) usanda kwenza umnikelo wakhe wokuqala we-5 yezigidi zeedola. Uluhlu luyaqhubeka.
-Kwaye, ngokuqinisekileyo, uRupert Murdoch, uCharles Koch, et al.
Abanikeli abancinci banyusa ukunikezela kwabo kwiiDemokhrasi kuba bayayazi indlela i-Republican Party eye yaba ngamandongomane ngayo kwimiba esusela ekukhupheni isisu ukuya kwidemokhrasi. UTrump uye watsalela kwi-GOP abamhlophe abaphezulu, abazalwana belizwe lobuKristu, i-QAnon paranoids, abanquli bobuzwe, ama-antisemites, ama-misogynists, kunye namajoni asekunene. Kunye ne-StarWars cantina yeegrifter, ii-crackpot, kunye nee-thugs abathi-njengoko uhlaselo lwe-6 kaJanuwari lubonisile-babeka ingozi ecacileyo nekhoyo kwidemokhrasi yaseMelika.
Abaxhasi abakhulu banyusa ukunika kwabo amaRiphabhlikhi kuba ngoku banemali eninzi kangangokuba nayiphi na irhafu ekhokelwa yiDemokhrasi kubo (okanye irhafu ekhokelwa yiRiphabhlikhi) iya kuba neziphumo ezinkulu zemali. Umthetho wokuNcitshiswa kwexabiso lokunyuka kwamaxabiso uveza ukuba ungakanani umonakalo onokwenziwa ziiDemokhrasi kwimigca esezantsi yezityebi.
Uninzi lwabaxhasi abakhulu babaxhasi (umzekelo, uPeter Thiel) bazama ukuthethelela iminikelo yabo njenge "libertarian," kodwa bayazi kakuhle ukuba i-Republican Party yangoku ayinanto yakwenza nenkululeko yomntu. Ixakekile ingena kumalungelo okuzala, inyanzelisa ukuvalwa kweencwadi kumathala eencwadi nakumagumbi okufundela, ithintela abantu abaselula abatshintshe isini ukuba badlale kumaqela athile emidlalo okanye basebenzise amagumbi athile okuhlambela, bengavumi ukuba abafundisi-ntsapho bathethe ngeenkalo zembali yaseMerika abangafuni ukuba abantu abaselula bayazi. , kunye nokucinezela iivoti ngokusebenzayo. Liberty unyawo lwam.
Hayi, iibhiliyoni azikho inkululeko. Bafuna into enye kuphela: ukuthotywa kwerhafu ngaphezulu.
Ukukhula okumangalisayo kwabanikeli abancinci kwiiDemokhrasi konke malunga noloyiko olufanelekileyo lokuba iiRiphabhlikhi ziya kwenza ntoni ngamandla angaphezulu. Ukukhula kweedola ezinkulu ukuya kwiRiphabhlikhi konke malunga nokubawa.
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