When it comes to politics, always do the exact opposite of Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

Most people in politics are malevolent, even if they're stupid. It's a zero-sum game and the enemy are playing for keeps. Plus, convincing your enemies that you're a useless idiot when you're actually incredibly competent and powerful is art of war 101.

Good video summarizing various theories on the origins of "woke capitalism":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FSLzjmHX8

Below is my theory btw (quoting from this article):

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So-called “Woke Capitalism” is largely a product of three major factors: Leftist cultural hegemony (especially in academia), elite conspiracy, and “Civil Rights” law.

1. Leftist hegemony in academia (and education in general) indoctrinates each new generation of elites, bureaucrats, and middle managers with Leftist ideology. The kids who grew up with Tumblr and went on to study sociology are now employed by Amazon’s HR department. Leftist views are also socially reinforced via the mainstream media, social media, and so on.

2. Elite conspiracy is self-explanatory: All major CEOs and corporate leaders are members of Globalist organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and Bilderberg Group. Open the website of any major corporation and you’ll find its board of directors to be filled with World Economic Forum goons, and so on. These types have been pushing Leftist ideology for centuries — though they were formerly restricted to shady secret societies, rather than flashy “global governance” NGOs.

3. Even if corporations aren’t directly involved with slippery Globalist organizations, they are all beholden to so-called “Civil Rights” laws that force companies to “go woke.” The neurotic ground troops of Globalism will accuse companies of “persecuting minorities” over the most minor slights, many of which are completely fabricated. These companies are then rung out through the court system meat grinder, which is, naturally, dominated by neurotic Leftists. They are inevitably found guilty of being evil racist bigots and forced to pay millions of dollars in compensation.

This is probably the most important part of the aforementioned article :

“Capitalism” is not an autonomous force. Corporations should not be viewed as special unique entities that are controlled by abstract economic wizardry, but as nodes of power — like the government, media, academia, or judiciary — that can be captured and controlled by ideologically-motivated parties. Certain people use their capital to push Globalist/Leftist politics, as they always have done. Jacob Schiff is a classic example: He was an international banker, architect of the Federal Reserve, director of Wells Fargo, and a major financier of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The entire NRX argument against "conspiracies" and "coordination" among the ruling class (i.e. that the destruction of the West was intentionally engineered and not brought about by mere incompetence) is that the inner party doesn't exist because the outer party is full of establishment climbers and retards.

Imagine taking this approach with Bolshevik Russia:

"The self-serving Party middlemen were stupid and vindictive, thus we conclude that Lenin and Trotsky did not 'coordinate' or 'conspire' to destroy traditional Russia."

What are these NRXoids trying to pull? Do they just think that their audience are idiots, or something?

It's blatantly obvious that the elite coordinate, since they announce all of their nefarious schemes to the public. Even if the global elite is semi-decentralized (which is kind of a necessity for a world-spanning ruling class), they're all singing to the same tune and pushing the same policies.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/thuletide/2912

Ever heard of the Carpocratians? They were a wacky Gnostic antinomianist sect based in Alexandria (Gnosticism itself was a wacky Judaism spin-off) who believed that they had transcended the material realm and could communicate with demons. They focused on subverting/violating Jewish biblical law and believed that transcendence could only be achieved by having every possible experience, including those that were sinful.

The Carpocratians were, essentially, ancient forerunners of the Sabbatean-Frankists, another bizarre (but incredibly influential) Jewish sect that preached moral inversion and focused on promoting as much degeneracy as possible because, according to the Babylonian Talmud, the Jewish messiah "will come only in a generation that is either altogether righteous or altogether wicked."

lol........

57% of Republican men under 50 believe that "transgender people are a threat to children." Interestingly, the proportion of women who agree with this statement is consistent across political lines: 27% and 29% for D and R, respectively.

Data from this recent SPLC poll: https://archive.ph/KuV3x

Another interesting stat: 61-71% (varying by age/sex) of Republicans agree that The Great Replacement is "not a natural change" and that is motivated by Leftists trying to replace "White voters." Better late than never, I guess...

I've never been a libertarian — I went straight from apolitical "conspiracy theorist" as a kid, to tankie as teenager, then "far right" (and back to being a "conspiracy theorist") during college — but do I empathize with libertarians' hatred of the state. This bloated technocracy is disgustingly invasive, and it's only going to get worse as the "fourth industrial revolution" progresses. The entire West is being steadily CCP-ified.

On a related note: I think we have an outdated view of "the state" today, in that most people think "the state" is just the government, when it actually consists of the government, the sprawling network of NGOs, the "global governance" organizations, the "private" megacorporations that control all media / resources / etc., the big investment banks and asset managers, and so on. In terms of power hierarchy, it seems like the government is near the bottom of the pile.