Army Bob: Barons of Silicon Valley feeding the Dems

by Robert M. Traxler

So why did the millionaires and billionaires, the Silicon Valley types, give more than $100 million to the Democrats during the 2020 election?

Karla Jurvetson, the ex-wife of Steve Jurvetson (of Hotmail, SpaceX, Tesla and others), dropped some $15,000,000 on the party’s efforts. Dustin Moskovitz $22 million to the Future Forward PAC; Reid Hoffman (the founder of Linked In) and his PAC gave $14.1 million; Jeff and Erica (of Twillio fame) gave $8.2 million; Connie Ballmer (former wife of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer) gave a paltry $7.6 million.

These corporate moguls and eight others donated more than $120 million combined.  Whatever happened to the American Socialist left being outraged over the money in politics? In decades gone by, the media gave nearly daily updates on the money in politics destroying our nation during a presidential campaign. What happened was that the money shifted to the left and now it is ignored by the media; outrage has morphed into loving acceptance. Folks, you cannot make this stuff up.

However, I digress. The question is why did the rich, the corporate royalty, the ruling class, the Barons of Napa Valley, give to the socialist party? In my view (and, yes in an opinion column people are allowed to have opinions), there are two reasons. First, President Donald Trump put tariffs and other taxes on imports from China and other Asian nations; the rich, the American economic royals, got that way with the help of China and its socialist economy. Keeping China happy is worth trillions to the “nouveau riche.”

Second, in a socialist revolution, what the French revolutionists called the national necklace or necktie, the guillotine, spared the rich who financed the revolution. 500 people a day were killed in Paris alone, a total in excess of 17,000 as enemies of the revolution, not just hereditary royals but their servants and their extended families.

It is hard to keep a killing machine of 500 people a day fed. So our rich are buying life insurance during this swing toward socialism. You may say they are good people who care and want to help the cause of the poor and downtrodden; OK, if they want to help, why give the millions to rich politicians to get even richer? Why not give $120 million to the poor?

“The Squad” types in general but our own Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib in particular, the true believers in the Senator Bernie Sanders branch of the socialist tree, are calling for the punishment of those who served in the President Trump administration. Calls for harassment, black balling, shunning and punishing those who committed no crime but served in a government they disapproved of is in keeping with the finest traditions of socialist revolutions. The most heinous crime in the eyes of the socialist mob is being or doing anything they remotely consider “counter-revolutionary”.

I was surprised to read in a CNBC report published online that the Democrats outspent the Republicans two to one in an election cycle that saw over 14 billion being spent. Not surprising; in the three articles I read from CNBC, the Washington Post and CNN, I did not find a charge of the left buying the election, a charge that was Standing Operating Procedure in the past when Republicans outspent the Democrats. If it were not for a double standard, our friends in the media would have no standards at all.

So we were told that the Russians were working with President Trump to steal the election; where are those charges now? Had President Trump won, the media would be wall-to-wall with Russia stories and we would be drowning in “the election was rigged, just see the thousands of ballots that were found well after the polls had closed or found to be fraudulent.”

I guess it’s not considered a bad thing for those whom the media supports in the socialist movement to purchase an election.