Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘All around the world, and all across America too, anyone with an interest in any US government decision has just one question: who do I pay?

So far, the political impact is muted. The scale and nature of this change doesn’t seem to be broadly understood. Congressional investigations are hampered by the Republican majority. Although some Democratic politicians do talk about oligarchy and kleptocracy, nobody has yet followed Alexei Navalny or Péter Magyar in creating a major campaign linking high-level corruption with falling middle class living standards. In Hungary, this was one of the arguments that finally defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Indeed, Hungarian businessmen with links to Orbán’s government are reportedly now leaving the country, or else sending their money abroad. Magyar, who hasn’t taken office yet, has alleged that “Orbán-linked oligarchs are transferring tens of billions of forints to the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Uruguay and other distant countries,” and has promised to use his office to stop them.

In the US, oligarchs are still accumulating their wealth with impunity. More to the point, nobody is yet trying very hard to stop them.’ (from her Substack)