So many of their “icons” basically boil down to “I go to colleges and troll people” (to the point of 30 year old losers like Ben shapiro still hanging out at and constantly talking about college campuses).
It feels like higher education is less and less relevant to material reality, it just seems such a bizarre area for them to focus so much propagandistic effort towards.
Old people yelling about the youth and worrying about them being corrupted and having their morals stripped away is probably as old as time. We know the ancient Greeks were bitching about their kids because they were so mad about it they bothered to write it down.
But it’s not old people. All the mouthpieces of this movement are relatively young like the poop girl and Charlie Kirk and shapiro. Sure the money might come from the Mercers but it tends to be old ass capitalists that have all the money to begin with. And they’re not just bitching about “the youth”, they’re complaining about their MARXIST PROFESSORS, the entire institution.
They pump money into younger people to serve as their mouthpieces because they desperately fear they're losing the younger generations
Good point, I just regard them as grifters getting in a tried and true grift of selling reactionary youthphobia at the old and comfortable. Could be Capitalism trying to undermine universities and privatize them all as some kind of long-con.