America is Not Just a Playground for the Wealthy!

Are there really super-weathly people in America who are trying to undermine Democracy in the United States? Are the wealthy really trying to wreck Government? Really? I mean is that just a myth, or it there really something to the idea?

For instance, "Robert Mercer, the New York hedge-fund magnate whose huge donations to pro-Trump groups in 2016 have been credited with putting Donald Trump in the White House..."

Is his daughter Rebekah really trying to "relive the thrill of the campaign with friends around her dinner table," by playing an elaborate parlor game called "Rules of Play?"

Janet Mayer of the New Yorker has the ugly details. Gob-smackng shite. What a freaking ugly game. When do the rest of us decide that America is not just the playground for the wealthy?

"The Rules include a description of Mercer’s father’s “character.” “Robert Mercer,” the instructions say, “sits atop one of the most powerful geo-political networks on the planet,” which is “driven by a next-generation technology stack with a business model.” They go on to note that “the Mercer Family is both a rival and an ally of the Kochs,” and claim that although the Mercers lack the “scale of business” of the Kochs, whose private company is the second largest in America, they compensate for it “with a constellation of over a dozen data analytics, machine learning, and electioneering companies around the world.” They continue, “The Mercers are building a global far-right movement to embed Judeo-Christian values” while “keeping government small, ineffective and out of the way.”