Follow the money

 I've posted several times here that the GOP isn't the conservative party, it is the party of the radical right. The Democratic Party is now the conservative party. There is no significant liberal party.

Why is that? Follow the money:

"The SBF story makes sense only if we understand that he was a key player in the Democratic Party counterrevolution that materialized following the unexpectedly strong showing of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, the emergence of an overtly leftist congressional wing spearheaded by the Squad, the concurrent rise of radical social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, and a new wave of union organizing. This new new left has been met with a cohort of donors and establishment strategists who, since 2018, have systematically targeted left-leaning primary candidates for defeat. This counterrevolution usually expresses itself though dark money spending—and only rarely and disingenuously articulates itself as an ideology. For the sake of clarity, we can label it “reactionary centrism” (to borrow a term popularized by the political analyst Aaron Huertas). Aside from being generically anti-left, reactionary centrists are often agitated by the rising sympathy for Palestinian human rights among young Democrats.

"Sam Bankman-Fried can be understood as one of the chief financiers of reactionary centrism."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sam-bankman-fried-progressives/