Yes. And frankly, all of these people who hate liberals immediately or eventually do actually benefit from all progressive change. They are walking, talking hypocrits with a penchant for heuristic cognitive bias all day, every day. The values-based bias and cognitive heuristics feed each other.
The oligarchs have always preferred a race war. What we should be having is a class war. The haters are hurting themselves to benefit the plutocrats.
To some extent. The titans of industry have often been wanting racial equality because it creates more labor competition that busts unions. But when leadership taps racial resentment and pulls its power from there, the kiss-the-ring loyalty tests that the titans are subject to change motives. Plus:
And I should have said: change *incentives* rather than change motives. The motives are commercial fiefdom, reaping personal comfort through wealth (and the ancient style family power that comes with it) and the erasing of national borders for themselves. High net worth families are institutions.
(Plus:) it only takes a couple of titans with deep racial hatred like Musk, Thiel and Murdoch to really bring intense energy to these dynamics. It’s like hurricane formation.