Zeni Perez’s Reviews > Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy > Status Update

“Nihilism may offer short-term benefits for oligarchs, but it isn’t a winning strategy in the long term. Sensible oligarchs don’t want to destroy the state; they just want to have the right kind of state.”

Privileged boys club pushes fascist fantasies cosplaying as philosophical visionaries. Pretending they’re the poor white who are growing resentment towards a system that fails them when they’re just the Ivy League elite vs. the ultra wealthy.

They want to control minorities because they are fragile and afraid they will no longer have power once there is equality. They’re saying the quiet part of dismantling our rights out loud to actually do it.

A nazi propelling their rhetoric at a conservative college? Not surprising. Embracing authoritarianism as a “leader above the law” is crazy

The subtext of a conservative school going full fascism is a legitimization of violence & illiberalism. Intellectuals take from Pluto and friends philosophy that if you don’t accept what they’re giving you, worse will come? Leads to blaming all who break the norm

The right rallies against “woke communism” but look like the villains themselves more than the resistance. It’s 2 sides of the upper middle class going against each other.

Too many liberal, leaning donors failed to understand or support the type of organizational infrastructure building in relationship building that’s required to forge a broad political movement. Liberals think you make social change by coming up with solutions that are evidence based, but people are less rational than that. Hence, conservative gaining their movement.

Seid is funding conservative dreams by believing in libertarian and fairytales. The conservatives hate of public education, started out of racism as far back as the reconstruction era, not wanting to pay for black education with taxpayer money.

The republicans on school boards care more about dismantling the education than the kids it’s meant to teach

Moms for liberty is more about using public ed as a scapegoat for American societies problems. They want to break what they can’t buy considering the founders have connections to the GOP & 50% of the charter schools in Florida