Oligarchs now in full control of America? What does Hacker News think of this?

The multi-millionaire and billionaire class have long put their thumbs on the scale of democracy through donations to the political class with the hope of gaining influence and shaping policy. But Tuesday's election outcome brings about a big shift that is different it seems to me from the past. US policy and democracy it seems to me has been handed directly to a small cast of characters led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bejos and perhaps the Murdoch family.

There is a disturbance in the force. I have felt in recent years, without being able to clearly articulate it, that something fundamental about the world has changed. Things seem a bit darker to me, there is something looming on the edge.

How are folks seeing things on where we stand?