蝉音了了
诗歌和蝉鸣
David Marcus
@davidmarcus
I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.
Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.
My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.
In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.
The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.
Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.
This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.
This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.
On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.
On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.
I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.
Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.
It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.
Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.
In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.
10:27 AM · Jul 31, 2024
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我正在越过卢比孔河并支持共和党和特朗普总统。
许多人，包括曾经的我，被困在一个成为他们身份的心理框架中，阻碍了他们随着新事实和信息的出现而彻底改变他们的思维。我终于摆脱了这种状态。
我的旅程是一个逐步的政治180度转变，从以前每次选举中的立场到现在。这是一个令人瞠目结舌的过程，包括对终身信仰的幻灭、重新设定并从头开始重建。
2017年，一位好朋友让我向DNC推销从硅谷创始人和高管那里筹集1亿美元的计划。目的是利用这些资金和技术专长建立一个CRM和技术平台，以防止希拉里·克林顿2016年竞选中不够充分和过时的情况重演。我们与DNC领导层会面，他们告诉我们可以筹集这笔钱，但它必须进入一般基金；其中只有个位数的百分比会被分配给技术。在他们最令人震惊的失败之一之后，他们并不想要帮助。
下一系列的觉醒始于2019年，当时我在Meta，刚刚宣布了Libra白皮书。我在参议院和众议院作证，并随后在华盛顿特区与议员、内阁成员、监管机构和两个白宫政府进行大量接触。当时，我仍然相信民主党都是为了服务人民。然而，我震惊地发现，大多数情况下，共和党人更关心他们的选民，而民主党人，更关心政府的权力和控制。这是我的观察，有很多故事可以证明。我还发现，更多的共和党人希望了解我们项目的目标，并花时间了解审查支付和控制网络的风险。我发现自己与他们非常一致。
然后COVID来了，揭示了更多东西。虽然我不认同最恶意的疫苗阴谋论，但我对为了隐藏来自NIH资助的武汉实验室的病毒起源而建立的审查机制，以及所有关于疫苗和封锁的反对声音感到愤怒。在那时，我完全理解为什么共和党重视言论自由和防止审查。
这种为了服务民主党议程而制造平行现实的趋势，由默许的主流媒体所巩固，在亨特·拜登笔记本电脑事件、协调抹黑特朗普总统及其追随者、拜登总统的认知能力下降——剥夺选民在正式初选中的发言权等问题上达到了顶峰。这些例子展示了当前民主党领导层的傲慢。你必须认为美国人民是傻子，才能相信这些问题的炒作。我对这种精英与普通大众的意识形态本能地感到厌恶。
这个版本的民主党正在把温和派和中间派边缘化，并采用越来越左倾的意识形态。这种左倾导致了一系列政策，我发现自己与之疏远。
在国内方面，完全背离了美国核心的价值体系，即精英主义，极端且被武器化的DEI议程，对大量非法移民持开放态度，以及曾经是边缘的叙述，现在在党内成为主流，抹黑成功。这种转变也导致我们因为反创新的监管环境，尤其是在加密货币和即将到来的AI领域，正在落后——这两个非线性的技术突破可能决定明天的领导国家。
在外交政策上，政府通过聚焦于乌克兰的激进北约扩张叙述，正在加剧与俄罗斯的紧张关系并延长一场无望的战争。这使得美国纳税人损失了数千亿美元，世界损失了数十万人的生命，耗尽了美国的军事武器库，并冒着第三次世界大战的风险。关于伊朗，这个政府正在继续奥巴马时代的错误计划，通过解冻特朗普时代的制裁，让穆拉政权有能力资助恐怖主义，并推动其反美、反以色列和反犹太的议程。从阿富汗的撤军也处理得非常糟糕。我们给中国留下了入侵台湾的机会，因为我们看起来很软弱。对我来说，最重要的是，关于以色列，政府正在让伊朗资助哈马斯和真主党，限制以色列与其敌人的战斗，从而延长另一个冲突，导致双方更多的生命损失，并在国内允许前所未有的反犹主义上升。
我相信我们需要一位明确支持美国、宪法、商业、比特币/加密货币、创新、以色列、小政府、合法移民、言论自由、精英主义和常识的总统——反对监管扩散、非法移民、不正义的战争、伊朗现政权以及反对美国价值观的国内团体。这些问题是特朗普总统平台的核心。
当然，我在某些问题上不同意特朗普总统和共和党，特别是女性的生育权。我已经了解到，两个党派中都有极端观点，但我坚信女性应该有不可剥夺的权利在这个两极分化的问题上做出自己的决定。特朗普总统确认他反对全国性堕胎禁令，并支持最高法院关于保持米非司酮可及性的决定，这令人放心，也是该党正在向中间靠拢的一个信号。
不提到最近针对特朗普总统的暗杀企图就不可能结束这篇文章。他在被击中后的几秒钟内表现出的勇气和决心令他的追随者和批评者都感到敬佩。那一刻，这个虽然不完美的人，最生动地体现了美国精神，开始将分裂的国家团结起来。
一些人声称，重新选举特朗普总统将使我们的民主崩溃。然而，另一种选择——让这些没有责任感的非选举人士掌握我们政府的巨大权力，并继续在国内外实施四年的糟糕政策——可能会带来更大的威胁。在哈里斯政府中，这些情况可能都不会改变，甚至可能会恶化。
在这个关键时刻，面对我们拥有的选择，我正在支持并推动2025年共和党政府的回归。
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最近和一位高中生闲聊，让我相信愿意思考的，不固守信仰/理念的还是很多的。接他家从欧洲旅游回来，说错过了床铺躲过刺杀的大新闻，高中生就说床铺是felon，是racist，不能选他做总统。我说这都是扣帽子，贴标签，得看他的施政纲领。他也没继续辩论，就说出民主党让他纠结的地方，说他对待lgptq是接受的，包容的，但是现在被逼着去违心地拥抱，赞赏，他觉得这是dictator才干的事情。
