WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.
The war in Ukraine is definitely easier to market, and I think that’s why.
And it infuriates me how war - people getting killed and cultural heritage being destroyed - is so capitalized like that.
Pretty sure it was the same deal with Vietnam back in the day, actually.