People keep describing eugenics when they talk about what politicians have been doing with society and why, but nobody names it because you get attacked if you say it, but we need to get past that.
It’s probably because there’s a lot of money behind the curtain keeping it closed and a lot of money interested in thwarting not just people who pull back the curtain, but anyone who might pull back the curtain.
Peter Greene:
Curmudgucation – School Choice Isn’t Uber. It’s LulaRoe. From September 2021 – PETER GREENE SEP 14, 2023 They believe the marketplace is God’s own way of sorting out the deserving from the undeserving. Their own wealth and success are a result of their superior awesomeness, not the luck of timing and circumstance. And if you are poor, that is a reflection of your unworthiness, your moral failings, your character flaws, and trying to boost you out of that is to go against the laws of nature. The implication underlying all this? Not everyone can succeed, and not everyone should. This is not an idea that translates well to public education, but it is a foundational belief about how the world works, and their ideas about the freedom to rise or fall on your merits echo those of fellow multi-level millionaires, Dick and Betsy DeVos (in fairness, Betsy’s money also comes from the manufacture of auto parts).
George Monbiot:
Letters and Politics 07.16.25 – 10:00am George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism George Monbiot’s description of neoliberalism: Politics has no legitimate role in making the key decisions about our lives. That instead should be left to economics. And decisionmaking should take place through the process of buying and selling and that will create or discover a kind of natural hierarchy. That the righteous people who will be at the top of society, we’ll know who they are, because they’re the ones with the money, and the unrighteous people will be cast down, they’ll be the ones without the money. And anything which interferes in the discovery of this rather Calvinist natural order which they claim exists, anything which interferes with that, such as taxation, such as regulation, such as trade unions, such as protesters, such as politics itself, let alone the alone of creation of public services and a social safety net, an economic safety net, welfare state, any of those things is illegitimate because it interferes with the discovery of this so-called natural order, and ensures that the wrong people come out on top.
Brian Beutler:
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social July 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
Jamelle Bouie:
jamelle @jamellebouie.net July 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
I remember years ago I saw a question on one of those question and answer websites and somebody asked something like how do you know if someone deserves their wealth, and someone literally answered with something like that whoever has amassed a lot of money has proven that they deserve it by getting a lot of money. And I thought it was odd at the time because nobody seemed to be commenting that this would necessarily legitimize bank robbers, burglars, and all manner of crimes.
Of course all this is preposterous because eugenics is not a science, it’s a pseudoscience ideology built on an accelerationist fantasy that leverages cognitive biases with apocalyptic hopium, post hoc justifications, and generally helping lucky and bad people hold their moral world their world together with the cheeks of their asses. And that’s how truly despicable lure in ordinary random people who aren’t thinking things through, to convince them into buying in on at least parts of this diabolical project.
The true reality is that eugenics is a might-makes-right immoral mentality, conjured up by criminal minds to defend unethical and offensive acts that disrupt society and harm their own communities.
And Trickle Down Economics isn’t just a discredited economics theory that doesn’t work as promised. It’s a ruse to paper over the eugenics scheme. Because you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that the rich and corporations can’t be regulated because the poor are just getting what they deserve AND claim that the rich and corporations will in fact take care of the poor and working class via jobs and privatized whatevers. The math just doesn’t add up there. It’s a fake out.
I’ve been pointing this out for years about the so-called job creators and their twisted ideology, but George Monbiot described it perhaps better than I could: “Either the system you’ve created is going to enrich people who you believe do not deserve to receive any rewards, or it’s going to keep those people poor, but what they’ve tried to persuade us is that it can do both things at once.”
Letters and Politics 07.16.25 – 10:00am George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism Mitch Jeserich: Is there a logic, obviously I know you think it’s a flawed logic, but is there a logic within this idea of liberty for the wealthy and something to the essence of you let the resources go through these individuals that have the means to be able to then redistribute them in jobs and projects and society and that’s one of the ways you keep capital flowing and benefiting society as a whole. George Monbiot: So yeah this is what they call trickle down theory that if you let the rich get very rich, some of that money will trickle down and enrich the rest of society. And this leads to a fundamental contradiction within neoliberalism which says that there shouldn’t be redistribution and that those at the bottom deserve to be at the bottom they deserve to be poor and those at the top deserve to hold onto their wealth. So you can’t have it both ways. Either the system you’ve created is going to enrich people who you believe do not deserve to receive any rewards, or it’s going to keep those people poor, but what they’ve tried to persuade us is that it can do both things at once.
And of course this comes back to tech tycoons and their data center power plant plans, and why they’re of course in league with authoritarian politics. Because it’s the same project.
Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends – 24th July 2025 • The Tech Policy Press Podcast • Tech Policy Press Maia Woluchen: “The weight of the conversations being had, and was had in Pittsburgh is that these are spoils that are going to fall on everybody. Isn’t it a great thing that we have, we’re going to bringing this opportunity for innovation, and everybody is going to have a job in that space, whether it’s in electricity, or in HVAC that we need for the data centers. But that is faulty framing that is still really premising everybody in that space as a worker as a contributor, but not somebody who’s actually receiving the benefits of this broader innovation sector, or is not the head of a multinational tech company that’s going to be reaping the benefits in terms of millions of dollars, billions of dollars over time. So we are really concerned about the narratives that are really taking root in a lot of these places that are enabling some these really pernicious tax deals, enabling some of this stuff to happen out of the public eye, and how this is kind of sweeping up so many of these localities into this broader idea that, ok it’s an exciting idea to be part of this innovation sector, knowing that these are just really kind of thin on their face ideas.”
Even beyond the eugenics and how we know you can’t have it both ways with trickle down both supposedly redistributing but saying redistribution is wrong. There’s also the fact that we’ve already been down this road before. With fracking. And call centers. And if you just learned CNC machining. Or if you just get a CNA cert. Over the decades I’ve heard this over and over and over again. The spoils. The boom will come. And yeah the boom comes, for some people, and then the bust is a burden on the rest of us, most of us. Some trucking company owners make out, and the roads get hammered and taxpayers are on the hook while fracking companies get tax breaks in Pennsylvania. Some nursing home flipper makes a bundle, while seniors wind up screwed. On and on with the examples of the bait and switch, over and over.
