(I excerpted this portion to emphasize what we see and don’t see. –
CL)
To get a sense of just how far we have gone down the road to
serfdom, ask a normie friend about such a proposal. Ask them if the government
should require FaceBook to get your written permission to use your data. The
right leaning normie will recoil in horror at the state doing anything. The
left leaning normie will most likely give you a blank look, as they are unable
to process the concept of privacy. The very idea of you owning you, owning your
name, you image and your habits, is now alien to most Americans.
On the other hand, the idea of transparency among the ruling
class has become an artifact of a bygone age. Around the Imperial Capital are thousands of not-for-profit
operations that are financed by rich people. You can look up some basic
information about them, but you can rarely find out who pays the bills. Take,
for example, The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.
This group harasses white people and is run by a white-hating woman named Kristen Clarke. Who pays for this? It is a
mystery, but it does not have to be.
Politics is now a clash
between these types of groups financed by shadowy characters that none of us
see. Instead we see trained actors as spokesman for these front groups that
essentially operate as money laundering operations. Because the billionaire
class is unable to hire politicians directly, they funnel their bribes through
non-profits. Cliff Asness gets to pay Jonah Goldberg to be
his mouthpiece and he gets a tax break. He’s not just a member of the
over-class, he’s a philanthropist!
Cliff Asness may be a civic minded
patriot, but the only reason we can know his name is he chooses to let us know
it. He could just as easily have made the gift anonymously or under some other
name. Unless you are into dissident politics, you would never know that every
utterance of Jonah Goldberg is paid for by some billionaire with interests that
may or may not be your interests. Every nickel that comes into a not-for-profit
should be public information, so we can actually know who is paying the paid
actors.