the reason why these people don’t want social programs is because they need poor, vulnerable kids to prey on. They managed to convince people to literally sacrifice their children, albeit quite indirectly.

Good observation. I just saw another comment that said they deliberately expose kids to violent content younger and younger, so they’ll grow up to be good fighting and occupying forces.

When AI/Robotics leads to a 50% unemployment rate (what do you think is the objective of the corporate giddiness of AI? They can’t wait to replace as many profit sucking employees as possible) the military is going to be one of the few income-producing employment paths left. Might as well start their “training” young, with lots of violent entertainment.