Trump, Vance, and the Apartheid Mafia Threat

Commentary By Roger Green
Well, folks, it feels like we are entering Soweto.
I mean, as we witness the recent political machinations of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, it seems as if we are being pulled into the vortex of a dangerous political culture, once found oppressing an apartheid South African township that struggled to achieve authentic freedom, prior to the enactment of a new democracy, that empowered the election of Nelson Mandela.
To the point: The avatars of white supremacy and sexism, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have officially aligned their presidential campaign with the neo-segregationist goals and regressive economic schemes of Elon Musk and Peter Theil, the coterie who have earned the title “The Apartheid Mafia”

In Elon Musk and Peter Theil, we find the irrational behavior of oligarchs and privileged immigrants who were raised in an oppressive apartheid South Africa. Today, they represent an elitist duo with a history of openly expressing their opposition to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), among other democratic ideals.

Elon Musk and Peter Theil are South African immigrants who have enthroned themselves as economic royalists operating in a new gilded age where they demonstrate a propensity to sympathize with the advocates of white supremacy and proto-fascism.

Since arriving on the shores of America, Musk and Theil have shown no shame while providing a platform for the advocates of white supremacy who aspire to re-establish a new Jim Crow regime in the U.S. that is akin to the vile apartheid system that informed and shaped their worldview.

Specifically, Musk and Teil have decided to carry the mantel of grievance capitalism as they invest portions of their extraordinary wealth in financing media and intellectual platforms that spread racist conspiracies and right-wing political schemes that are intended to inspire the proponents of white minority rule in the U.S.

In 1995, Peter Theil launched his first neo-segregationist effort when he authored “The Diversity Myth.” The book is celebrated by advocates of white supremacy, white Christian ethno-nationalism, and a pretentious class of corporate elites who fear being challenged by by a transforming multicultural world.

Consequently, the fallacies in Peter Theil’s screed eventually encouraged the befuddled Eon Musk, his South African fellow traveler, to declare that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is “the greatest threat to Western civilization.”

Amazingly, while our human family struggles with real threats originating from the climate crisis, wealth inequality, public health pandemics, and nuclear arms, Musk and Theil increasingly express the fretful mindset of confused children who were distorted by the racism enforced by an Apartheid South African regime.

To be sure, the lived experience of Musk and Theil occurred in a time and place when the South African majority struggled to enact a free, diverse, equitable, and inclusive democratic nation. Truth be told, the emerging Democratic South Africa enacted by Mandela and other freedom fighters terrified the white South African minority during the developing years of Musk and Theil.

Hence, the adult Elon Musk and Peter Theilare aligned with a growing constituency of economic royalists (oligarchs) who demonstrate political behavior that reminds us of the meaning found in the celebrated lyrics encompassed in a Public Enemy wrap entitled “Fear Of A Black Planet.”
Indeed, this fear of a diverse planet currently agitates these transplanted oligarchs from South Africa and is exemplified by Musk’s and Theil’s desire to support any autocratic and proto-facist political effort that intends to protect their polarizing wealth from a transforming multi-racial and multi-ethnic electorate, who aspire to enact public policies meant to uplift poor, working poor, and working-class citizens.

To whit: Peter Theil is on record saying that the Apartheid regime of his youth wasn’t evil because it was good for business. Furthermore, Peter Theil believes that democracies are a failed system of governance because they tend to support the economic needs of poor citizens and women at the expense of corporate monopolies.

In keeping with Peter Theil’s unhinged thoughts, his political ally, Elon Musk, recently decided to empower this atavistic thinking when he announced support for Trump’s proto-fascist presidential campaign while also committing to fund a voter repression effort that will target marginalized populations.
The record shows that Musk’s and Theil’s recent embrace of an anti-democratic mission was launched and financed after Trump, the wannabe Mussolini of Mar-largo, anointed JD Vance to be his most recent vice president of the United Sycophants.

Please be aware that JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Peter Theil have been united in a long-term alliance. JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Peter Theil were founding partners in a multimillion-dollar corporate enterprise that enhanced and consolidated their disproportionate wealth within a polarized and inequitable US economy. Unfortunately, this loot currently positions this cabal to have unfettered political influence over the U.S. body politic.

Musk and Theil are South African emigrants who have demonstrated that they will prioritize their profit imperative and neo-segregationist values over the defense of democratic norms required of “We The People.”

Moreover, while orchestrating this ignoble scheme, the Musk and Theil oligarchs are also supporting a political enterprise to elect Trump and Vance by denigrating the accomplished Kamala Harris with a precept of inferiority.
Consistent with their neo-segregationist narrative concerning a distaste for diversity, they are supporting a campaign that incites their right-wing political allies to declare that Vice President Harris and others of a darker hue are no more than a merit-less DEI threat to their inequitable profit only and repressive political interest.

So, in this consequential election, we urge you to follow the money and follow the anti-democratic threat originating from an emerging Apartheid Mafia. This cabal intends to anoint a neo-segregationist white minority rule over a diverse US body politic.
In defense of democratic ideals, including the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, please Stay Woke and Vote on November 5, 2024.
Win, Kamala, Win!