If you are watching the January 6th hearings closely or are a fan of Senator Whitehouse you may know Jeffrey Clarke (a Trump lackey who even other Trump lackeys saw as incompetent) got hired by “dark money” funded organizations.
There is plenty of shenanigans of dark money on the left too. Besides, if you think of how billionaires spend money pretending to undo the very problems they cause, all money is dark. (See Anand Giridharadas.)
In response, people sometimes call for transparency. But that just becomes a maze of loopholes, a shell game of shell companies for lawyers and bankers, like those twelve-page agreements Google cranks out. It is “transparent” in the same way a strand of DNA is transparent: All the info is there if you’ve a microscope and a PhD.
So here’s a question: What is “light money?” What is money so bright you can’t spend it on guns and ammo and bombs and straight-up grifters without setting off an alarm the whole word sees?
Let’s get the tech companies on that kind of coin and make it rain.