Blake Masters is running for US Senate

I was googling about this, and found this which pulls no punches. Seems he's a Thiel-esque hard-Right candidate: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562508-thiel-ally-blak...

> Blake Masters, a top ally of GOP mega-donor Peter Thiel, launched a bid in Arizona’s Senate race Monday as the GOP field vying to take on Sen. Mark Kelly (D) grows.

> Masters, the chief operating officer at Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, has recently become more involved in Republican politics, including in 2020, when he headed a PAC that raised more than $3 million to elect Republicans to the Arizona State Legislature. In a campaign launch video, Masters touched on a number of GOP culture war issues like immigration and critical race theory while casting himself as an ally of working families.

> “It’s time to put this country first. It’s time to enforce the law, and we need to finish the wall,” he added over video of him walking in front of the U.S.-Mexico border.

> Masters’s entry into the race is the latest move by Thiel to assert his influence over key Senate races across the country. The billionaire tech entrepreneur has doled out $10 million each to two super PACs backing Masters and J.D. Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author who is running in the Ohio Senate GOP primary.

I am a refugee from Iran. And reading this webpage, I feel he makes some good points. Throughout my life, I've seen the U.S. bomb brown people. He writes that he wants to stop such interventions. That is something I can get behind. As well as education being more like progressive indoctrination. I wish he would also make a point about the U.S. prison system, which seems deeply flawed and inhumane.

Woof. I don’t think you could stuff anymore fear and paranoia into a platform than that. “The schools are bad and getting worse”, “ A society that permits mass lawlessness is doomed. We are on that path”, “ Every day, we read about new legal and cultural attacks on our children” (won’t somebody please think of the children!?)

I live in AZ and I’m sure the idea of the strong jawed billionaire ready to lead humanity to a golden age will play well with certain sectors of the state and he may even win. It’s a shame he doesn’t have any actual policy statements especially when he discusses healthcare, where he says the Biden admin is pushing “dumb regulations” but then proposes a bunch of things that would only be fixed by regulation.

who?

> The Left takes an anti-human view, pitting a fictional pristine “environment” against civilization. Actually, man is called to fill the earth and subdue it.

(emphasis mine)

Good to see that the Christian Right is alive and well in tech.