What is so alarming now isn’t that an authoritarian president and a small cadre of right-wing tech executives want to take over. It’s hardly surprising that centi-billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk would shift the messages in their social media empires to cater to Mr. Trump. What is truly surprising is that everyone else — the same people who once believed in the power of technology to strengthen our society and our democracy — is allowing them to get away with it. The same Silicon Valley leaders who used to trumpet their anti-authoritarian leadership style have gone ominously quiet.
People just dont want to come to the obvious conclusions; We The People are on our own. No government institution or powerful figure is going to smash the glass as it were and end this like some climax on an action movie. And when its all said and dome if Citizens United isnt repealed and money capped at 1k donations per individual (entities such as corps are barred) this whole thing will just happen again in another fifty years.