Yes, They Want To Kill Us All

The elite's weird eugenic death wish.

RFK Jr./Wikimedia Commons

For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. has surpassed 1,000 cases of measles. It’s a sad reversal of public health. Our leaders are now trying to shove diseases down our throats, and they’re moving toward a time when they very well might start taking vaccines off the market entirely. RFK Jr. recently told Fox News, “Only very, very sick kids should die from measles.” The rampant misinformation he spreads underscores the quiet part—he believes we should let them. Kennedy has also publicly expressed nostalgia for the era when “everybody got measles… and measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection.” Ah, yes. The good ol’ days when everyone got measles, one of the most contagious diseases in human history, which can cause blindness and deafness, with a case fatality rate that runs as high as 30 percent in developing countries. Question: At what point do your leaders do so much damage to science and public health that you lose your “developed country” status and become just like the rest of the world?

And by the way, these other countries aren’t “undeveloped” by accident. Developed countries often stole their resources and actively sabotaged their efforts to build democracies and public health.

Now that’s all turning inward.

We’re paying attention to RFK Jr. for a variety of reasons, and one of those reasons applies to all of us. If you want to survive the next decade or two, it’s worth understanding the thought process at work here. Otherwise, it all looks like idiocy and chaos. And yet, there’s a plan.

It’s a plan with a long history.

You’re not gonna like it.

Let’s go back in time to 1921, when they tried to ban people with glasses from getting married. I’m not kidding. By “they,” I’m not talking about Nazis in Germany. A group of elites in New York tried to pass that law.

They believed the marriage would produce children who became a burden to taxpayers. The bill never passed, but it got support from doctors, lawyers, professors, judges, and at least one state senator.

It’s a fascinating example of how far the eugenics movement went in the U.S., a movement embraced by progressives, a movement that aimed to “improve” the human race by deciding who was allowed to procreate and who got doomed to a life of poverty, exploitation, and abuse. The eugenicists wanted to decide who was rewarded in society and who was sterilized, banned from getting married or starting families, denied life-saving medicine, and left for dead. Their thought process made about as much sense as catching measles to develop immunity to measles when there’s a perfectly good vaccine.

Think for a moment how dumb it is to even think about denying marriage to someone who wears glasses. Even in 1921, you’d think there would be overwhelming evidence that people with glasses can still contribute quite a lot to society, and produce children who contribute a lot.

That’s not the way the eugenics mindset works, though. It simply sees something abnormal, and wants to eradicate that.

When you take a dive through American eugenics, you find something even more disturbing than the desire to wipe out the vulnerable and disabled—which should be bad enough, but it gets even worse. Left unchecked, the eugenics impulse keeps expanding the list of those deemed “unfit” for society to absurd proportions. That’s where RFK Jr. and his minions are going with all this.

Eventually, they’ll try to eliminate everyone.

How did all this start?

In the wake of a pandemic and a world war, Warren Harding won a landslide presidential victory in 1920 by campaigning on, in his own words, "normalcy." He promised a return to normal. It was this larger desire for normalcy that gave the eugenics movement fertile ground.

The idea itself originated with Charles Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, who invented the term in 1883. He argued that governments should play a more direct role in "improving" the human race through a range of policies. By the early 20th century, eugenics had become a widely accepted idea in western culture, endorsed by everyone from Winston Churchill to Woodrow Wilson and taught in hundreds of universities from Northwestern to Harvard. British eugenicists ultimately rejected the American spin on the idea, finding it completely horrifying.

Why?

Americans added a distinct layer of hate to existing eugenic science. Even the Journal of the American Medical Association endorsed cruel eugenics in their coverage of The International Eugenics Congress in 1912, bemoaning how "The unfit among men were no longer killed by hunger and disease but were cherished and enabled to reproduce their kind." Darwin's cousin created the word, but it only gave Americans a term to articulate ideas that were circulating for decades, all rooted in a national obsession with racial and spiritual purity.

So, eugenics had been around for a while, but the post-pandemic, post-war cultural hunger for “normal” fed it a ton of jet fuel.

Most Americans don't understand just how much support the eugenics movement had and how deep it went. As Steven Farber writes, "these ideas were not fringe but widely held and taught in universities." Major organizations, including the Carnegie Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation, funded and organized research in eugenics. You know John Harvey Kellogg, the cereal guy? In 1910, he helped found the Eugenics Record Office, along with Stanford President David Starr Jordan. That led to the establishment of the Eugenics Research Association, and the American Eugenics Society. They operated "with the expressed support of the mainstream scientific establishment," including the American Association of the Advancement of Science, who published the journal Science.

Like many eugenicists, Kellogg paradoxically endorsed progressive social reform and public health for the first half of his life. Then something inside him snapped, and he spent the next thirty years promoting eugenics and segregation.

Maybe all the success went to his head?

Who knows...

These rich, powerful organizations ultimately wanted to sterilize a tenth of the U.S. population, considered "unfit." By unfit, they often meant: poor, disabled, mentally ill, and not white. By 1920s standards, it wasn't hard to fall into the "unfit" category. You just had to cause a little too much trouble.

The eugenicists got down to business in the 1920s, riding on the public's deep desire for normal. States from California to Virginia booted up sterilization programs, upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1927 case Buck v Bell, which declared that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize a young woman named Carrie Buck. Here's an excerpt from the majority decision:

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from breeding their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting Fallopian tubes... Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

American eugenics agencies targeted anyone with a chronic medical condition, as well as criminals and runaways. If you developed a reputation for being shy or introverted, your friends and family could refer you to a eugenics counselor, for lack of a better term. They would give you an array of tests, including an IQ test. If you didn't pass it with flying colors, you got sterilized.

Sterilization was just the starting point.

They wanted to do more.

These programs are most notorious for their sterilization campaigns, but they presided over a vast network of institutions that didn't just try to stop the "weak" or "feeble minded" from procreating. They sought to separate them from society altogether. They locked them up in asylums, sent them to "colonies," or sentenced them to forced labor for the rest of their lives. When RFK Jr. talks about work farms, that’s what he’s referring to.

It wasn't a big jump from mass sterilization to mass incarceration of those considered “weak” for “feeble minded.” In fact, eugenicist publications in the U.S. frequently wondered what they would do with "a group of people who are free to gratify their instincts without fear of consequences in the form of children." They started to worry about the spread of "debauchery and disease." These fears often led them to recommend "incarceration in special colonies." Those aren't the words of a German Nazi. Those are the words of Henry Goddard, the head of the Vineland Training School for Feebleminded Girls and Boys.

In New Jersey…

Goddard wrote those words in a 1913 book called The Kalikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeblemindedness. To emphasize, a New Jersey school principal and amateur biologist recommended the mass sterilization and incarceration of the feebleminded decades before Hitler became a political force. And those ideas were widely celebrated in American culture. It's demoralizing to think about all the bright, talented young people who would qualify as introverted, autistic, or neurodivergent today who were simply labeled as "degenerate" and medicated into oblivion under these laws, to the applause of America's elite.

These programs and the laws they inspired were so hateful, they even tried to label entire extended families of a single epileptic patient as "feebleminded" and have them sterilized. As Edwin Black writes in War Against The Weak, their dragnet became "so sweeping that it covered not only people plagued by seizures, but also those suffering from migraine headaches and even brief fainting spells due to exhaustion, heat stroke or other causes."

Eugenics programs ultimately identified 10 classes of "unfit" people who should be "sterilized" if not "eliminated."

1. The feebleminded

2. The poor

3. Alcoholics

4. All criminals

5. Epileptics

6. The "insane"

7. The "weak"

8. The "deformed"

9. The deaf and blind

10. The chronically ill

Sometimes, the definitions were so broad they included anyone who had outstanding fines or couldn't pay their bills on time.

The deeper you delve into Americans' love affair with eugenics, you find that it wasn't simply a brutal effort to apply genetics to social institutions. It provided the affluent with a strong reason to do what they'd always wanted, to declare war on those they already considered inferior.

That's what happened.

One of the leading eugenics proponents, Madison Grant, often came dangerously close to advocating outright for the extermination of the unfit, and words like "elimination" pepper eugenicist publications. Sometimes, more prominent public figures like Alexander Graham Bell (a eugenicist) asked them to walk it back a little. They were worried about bad press.

Madison Grant wasn't exactly a pariah. He served on boards of scientific societies and museums across the country. In 1916, Grant published The Passing of The Great Race, a book that declared the superiority of "The Nordic race" in unequivocal terms and panicked over their looming extinction in the face of an industrialized society that catered to "weaklings." He also wanted to add Congolese tribes to the ape display at the Bronx Zoo.

Grant's ideas inspired Theodore Roosevelt, who maintained regular correspondence with eugenicists. In one letter, Roosevelt wrote that "society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind" or "the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type." Woodrow Wilson also subscribed to eugenicist ideas and even passed sterilization laws when he was governor of New Jersey, after vocally advocating for them in Indiana. He presided over one of 32 states that passed laws directly allowing physicians in state facilities to sterilize patients without their knowledge or consent, and that's not even touching the laws that put various restrictions on the freedoms of anyone considered unfit.

When Woodrow Wilson ignored the 1918 flu, he wasn't just incompetent. He was practicing eugenics. He was just like RFK Jr. He believed only the very sick would die from the flu, and the government should let them.

On top of the tens of thousands of official sterilizations, experts like Edwin Black estimate hundreds of thousands more. Eugenics programs did far more damage than most state, county, and city offices will ever admit.

American eugenics programs inspired the Nazis.

They looked up to us.

Hitler wrote a letter to Madison Grant saying, "The book is my Bible."

While British scientists rejected and excoriated American eugenics, Germany took these American ideas and scaled them up considerably, even using computers and data systems engineered by IBM to run their mass sterilization programs. As Edwin Black explains, American eugenicists in the 1930s began to complain very publicly, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."

American intellectuals weren't taken aback.

They were... jealous.

Americans only began to back away from eugenics when Germany showed them the full realization of their goals. The whole time, a handful of real journalists and progressive newspapers did call American eugenics out for what it was, "a war of the wealthy against the poor." Amen.

Here's the worst part:

Everyone who believes their natural fitness will protect them from the threats we're facing now is simply setting themselves up for a rude awakening when they or someone they truly care about dies from a preventable disease.

This is the world RFK Jr. wants to live in. He wants to revive eugenics in the U.S. He wants diseases to wipe out those he considers “unfit” for society. If you cause too much trouble, he wants to label you “feeble minded” and have you disappeared into a colony, and eventually exterminated.

RFK Jr. and his minions don’t care what intellectual achievements they snuff out in their reckless pursuit of racial improvement. They’re working from the American playbook of pseudoscience that inspired Hitler. If you’re autistic, if you’re chronically ill, if you get headaches, if you have trouble paying your bills, he wants you gone—the sooner the better. Eventually, everyone they don’t like will fall into the category of “unfit.” And if they happen to kill any geniuses by accident, it doesn’t matter. They’re going to replace everyone with robots anyway.

On occasion, I’m called a paranoid conspiracy theorist and an idiot for suggesting that the elite want to kill off the vast majority of the “surplus population.” But you have to remember, when they talk about colonizing space and exporting us all to have more kids, they aren’t talking to us. The elite want each other to have more kids. They want the rest of us to produce an expendable labor force, which they can choose to kill off once they become too much trouble.

There’s an analogy for all this in those real-time strategy games that started coming out in the 90s. Remember those? You build an empire by generating tons of “citizens” who cut down trees and mine gold. You make them and make them until you have enough wood and gold to start building armies and robots. When you don’t need as many citizens anymore, you can just kill them. It’s often as simple as tapping the delete key. They drop dead right there. You don’t have to pay their medical expenses. You don’t have to give them vaccines or a living wage. You don’t have to fund their retirement. You don’t even have to bury them.

That’s what the elite want. It’s what they’ve always wanted. They view the world as one giant real-time strategy game.

As we’ve said many times, and which Naomi Klein recently explored, these jerks are obsessed with the apocalypse and flirting with doomsday. They love bunkers. They love famines. They love genocide. They’ve gotten it in their heads that only they deserve to survive, only they deserve to procreate, and they believe everyone who’s not them should be wiped out.

That’s the plan.

It’s a bad one.