There's really nothing in this that you can latch on to. It's rambling and at times paranoid. (He approvingly cites the bonkers claim that "...some of these kids are joining the company not with the intent of doing things for us but destroying us.")

The one thing that struck me is that Andressen doesn't see himself as an 'activist'. This is a pejorative that he applies to the little people who have the effrontery to express political views when they ought to be sucking up to him, like in the good old days ("When do I get promoted, and how much do I get paid, and when do I end up running the company?").

> The most privileged people in society, the most successful, send their kids to the most politically radical institutions, which teach them how to be America-hating communists.

It's funny to compare this with the Powell memo from the seventies.

> A chilling description of what is being taught on many of our campuses was written by Stewart Alsop:

> “Yale, like every other major college, is graduating scores of bright young men who are practitioners of ‘the politics of despair.’ These young men despise the American political and economic system . . . (their) minds seem to be wholly closed. They live, not by rational discussion, but by mindless slogans.”A recent poll of students on 12 representative campuses reported that: “Almost half the students favored socialization of basic U.S. industries.”

>A visiting professor from England at Rockford College gave a series of lectures entitled “The Ideological War Against Western Society,” in which he documents the extent to which members of the intellectual community are waging ideological warfare against the enterprise system and the values of western society. In a foreword to these lectures, famed Dr. Milton Friedman of Chicago warned: “It (is) crystal clear that the foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack — not by Communist or any other conspiracy but by misguided individuals parroting one another and unwittingly serving ends they would never intentionally promote.”

This bit is particularly interesting when you realise the guy writing it is later installed in the supreme court by Nixon:

> The American Civil Liberties Union is one example. It initiates or intervenes in scores of cases each year, and it files briefs amicus curiae in the Supreme Court in a number of cases during each term of that court. Labor unions, civil rights groups and now the public interest law firms are extremely active in the judicial arena. Their success, often at business’ expense, has not been inconsequential.

> This is a vast area of opportunity for the Chamber, if it is willing to undertake the role of spokesman for American business and if, in turn, business is willing to provide the funds.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...

Look at the election of William McKinley Vs William Jennings Bryan and what happened in the following 2 two elections. Very useful to understand what happens to Gilded Age Oligarchs.

What they say and think has nothing to do with how the universe works