Part of the problem here is that Parler is funded by Robert Mercer. Robert Mercer was a founder of Cambridge Analytica and funder of Breitbart.
I think this one individual has done more to divide America than anyone else (including Trump). And it has been highly profitable for him.
There has been no attempt to hold Robert Mercer accountable for his actions. This needs to change. The FBI should dig into his electronic correspondence to see if he had a role in the Capitol Riots.
https://www.reuters.com/article/parler-funding-mercer/social-media-platform-parler-gets-backing-from-mercer-family-wsj-idUSKBN27V020Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946)[2] is an American hedge fund manager, former principal investor in the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica,[3] computer scientist who was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer, and former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies.[2][4][5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MercerEdit: he also supported the Brexit campaign. This guy is dark.
Mercer played a key role in the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union by donating data analytics services to Nigel Farage.[6]
To no one’s surprise, he is a racist.
Mercer has said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark federal statute arising from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, was a major mistake. In 2017, David Magerman, a former Renaissance employee, alleged in a lawsuit that Mercer had said that African Americans were economically better off before the civil rights movement, that white racists no longer existed in the United States, and that the only racists remaining were black racists.
I think we can solve a lot of these problems and heal America through campaign finance reform. If we stop the firehose of money flowing from billionaires to politicians, we can eliminate much of the corruption.
The Democrats control all three arms of government for two years and they have the means to overturn much of the US campaign finance laws. This will fix at least some of the sickness at the source. Unfortunately I have my doubts that they can do it with such a narrow majority, they only need one dissenter.
I'll see your Robert Mercer and raise you a George Soros.
Plenty of people in the United Kingdom supported Brexit. Most / plenty were never influenced by any outside source for wanting to step outside of the EU simply because of the fact the United Kingdom was never under German control during the second world war. Many people in the UK hardly saw the benefit of the EU as some type of protector in the division that caused two world wars. The UK never wanted the Euro thus any further proposed fiscal unification was only seen as a threat and loss of control.
Add in the exodus from half of Syria (supposedly, there were many from different nations who took advantage) to Europe starting in 2015 and the Brexit vote was pretty much sealed when that was going on.
It was easy to make some money in the UK on the Brexit vote betting via bookmakers as it was about 10 to 1 for leave!
Robert Mercer was never needed to do a damn thing.
Nigel Farage never managed to get himself elected as a member of parliament. His influence, yes it was there as a barking dog in the EU parliament, was hardly needed to sway anyone.
In addition, you only have to go back 10 years before the Brexit vote and find out that in fact the Liberal Democrats wanted an in out referendum as well. Nothing to do with Robert Mercer or Nigel Farage.
