Peter Thiel. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
It was back in 2021 when Fiona Hill wrote, “Russia is America’s ghost of Christmas future.” And now here we are.
Fiona Hill’s words might have been just a metaphorical warning back in 2021. Now it’s obvious not only what Trump’s intentions are, it’s equally obvious that the Republican Party, Republicans in Congress, and the U.S. Supreme Court are fully on board. They want a Putin-like head of state with unlimited power. The country will be run not for the people, but for the billionaire oligarchy and the elite but incompetent hacks who are corrupt enough, and loyal enough to Trump, to be a part of the government.
We’ve had Elon Musk’s number for quite a while now. But even more chilling is how tech billionaires who formerly supported Democrats have now gone over to Trump. And why wouldn’t they? The American economy, as in Russia, is being allocated out to its billionaire oligarchs. They all want their piece of it. For example, in Politico: “‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco.” Benioff’s wealth has doubled in the last five years.
Those who now control the power of government can give the oligarchs a choice: Come on board and get your share, or be targeted, corruptly, by the law, like George Soros.
Trump could never have gained power without the help of the deplorables’ machinery of religion, so Christian nationalists also are getting their share of the government. Kevin Roberts, a Christian nationalist and president of the Heritage Foundation (which is behind Project 2025) said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
We’re past the point at which billionaires had to be discreet about their intentions. They talk openly now. We can see clearly now what they are and what they want. If they stay in power, it’s clear what America is to be.
Peter Thiel actually gave a series of four lectures to the Commonwealth Club of California. The title of the lectures was, “The Antichrist: A Four-Part Lecture Series.” Recordings of the lectures were leaked. You can read about what Thiel said here, in the Washington Post; and here, in the Guardian.
So we know what these people want. We also know what they are afraid of. What they are afraid of is democracy. In a democracy they would be heavily taxed, and their power would be curbed. Thiel has been explicit about this, as when he says that democracy is incompatible with freedom. He thinks only of his own freedom, of course. The freedoms (and rights) of people like us mean nothing to him. To him, we are not free people with rights and freedoms. Rather, we are dangerous threats to his freedom.
It’s really pretty terrifying what great wealth can do to people. We’ve reached another point in history in which a few people with great wealth believe — and it may be true — that they have more power than the people and that they have a right — God-given, no less — to use that power, bloodlessly or not.