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Shocking surprise that the deep state was the GOP all along.
Well, billionaires and oligarchs are the deep state and always have been. The GOP is just their puppet. DNC is as well, but they're less relevant nowadays.
Just recently, the new head of the DNC stated that they only want to take money from "good billionaires" and not "bad billionaires", and meanwhile the GOP (represented by Trump) just installed the richest man on Earth who's also a Nazi as essentially king of America so he can ignore being president and go golfing.
One is clearly better than the other, but that side is controlled oppositition bought by the billionaire class as well, which creates a ratchet effect where the range of "acceptable" political beliefs shifts further and further right, as we've seen since at least the 70s, but which really ramped up with Reagan and Bill Clinton's introduction of neoliberal idiology to the US.
Unpopular opinion but I'm not opposed to this.
When you're at war, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Some members of the "Billionaire" class just the same helped fund the Allied War Machine to defeat Nazis, and so too can we choose our allies. Buffett and Gates are certainly better than Musk or Thiel; and so if Billionaires wish to support Harris over Trump, for instance, then I'm all for it.
Put another way: the choice between Harris and Trump should've already been a no-brainer; the fact that it wasn't is proven by the conservative control of media. There wasn't a single policy that Harris wasn't significantly better on.
I'm something like a Nordic model democrat and I would probably do the same given the circumstances of the media playing field.