“Ultimately, however, my primary interest is: why? What are their motivations? Power simply for power’s sake; or perhaps a more noble foundation? If one chooses power, then you’re sort of boxed in with a satanic perspective ie pure evil.”
This is gramci’s cultural marxism on autopilot. Destroy everything that ties a society together so that the left(or whoever) can take over. Most of the useful idiots don’t even know why they’re doing it.
Nor do any of them have a clue where this is headed. They do not have the knowledge of history nor the insight into human behavior to understand we are on a quick-march to totalitarianism, civil war, and the loss of the Republic.