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An open letter to billionaires with a social conscience: [1]

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Date: 2025-02-15

An open letter to billionaires with a social conscience:

- Self interested billionaires are literally, actively destroying America and the world. This has been part of a long, planned process – Donald Trump didn’t just suddenly arise out of thin air, it took years of the gradual erosion of American values for someone like him to even be considered a viable presidential candidate.

- On the legal side, billionaires have bankrolled the Federalist society, indoctrinating young lawyers into hard right ideologues who have used the courts to subvert the will of the American people.

- In media, billionaires have funded Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, and the Sinclair broadcasting group, as well as hundreds of local radio stations, who have filled the airways with disinformation, half-truths and outright lies, to the point where even poor people on government assistance have been taught to hate the very government that sustains them. People who can see with their own eyes that the world is growing warmer every year have been taught by the right-wing media not to believe in their own lived experience.

- The past election saw billionaires literally buying votes to install a convicted felon, an obvious con man who should have been tried for treason, into the most powerful office in the world. These same billionaires are now actively pushing to extend their influence into other nations, including trying to bring fascism back to Germany.

- The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. You are either against evil or you are enabling it. Your nonpartisan, charitable efforts will all come to naught if the American government actively moves to thwart them. For example, America has just stopped the PEPFAR program that brought life-saving AIDS medicines to Africa. Without them, millions will now die, the entire region will be destabilized, and many more will die in chaos and conflict.

- We need responsible billionaires who will fund the resistance, from legal challenges to this administration’s unconstitutional actions, to media outlets that can counter the lies of the far right, to direct support for ordinary citizens who run campaigns against self-funding oligarchs. The free America that enabled you to gain your wealth is under attack. If you wait for another year, it will be too late. You have enough money for you and your descendants to live comfortably for generations. But the world your ancestors will see may be unlivable. It’s up to you.



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