A rational explanation for this plague of WOKE agendas in American institutions

There has to be a rational explanation for this plague of WOKE agendas in American institutions. The key to understanding this is a pithy remark of Karl Marx : " The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class ". Is life better now for ordinary working class black people because Ivy League trained individuals are intoxicated with WOKE nonsense ? Do elite white Americans they think that THEY are incorrigible racists ? And if THEY think that SOCIAL INEQUALITY in general is so intolerable , why are THEY not democratic socialists ? The chartered members of the American plutocracy feel a need for some PR moral grandeur beyond the blessing of the Moloch Money God. Black Slavery was Gone with Wind a long long time ago in the United States. The American ruling class has nothing to lose by sermonizing against it in this 21st century . The American Civil War was the last time the anti-slavery Northern capitalists could feel the euphoria of moral leadership in their still very young country. But those FREE black slaves were quickly herded into the WAGE SLAVERY of the capitalist Industrial Revolution. Reading Engels 1844 classic " The Condition of the Working Class in England ", the thoughtful reader might wonder why REPARATIONS are not overdue to the descendants of those poor Irish Catholics so cruelly exploited in those dark Satanic mills that were the backbone of the British Empire in its 19th century glory. Reparations for THEM , anyone ? Today it is dangerous to see and talk about CAPITALIST wage slavery . Do not awaken critical thinking skills here ! Better to stupefy the Black and the White working class with daydreams of the GOOD LIFE under capitalism . The American ruling class is always discovering some new exotic minority . If they can fragment society into hundreds of such RECOGNIZED ( at least by WOKE Democrats ) " victimized " sub-cultures - TRANS GENDERS being the latest - with the white Christian working class invariably as their unnamed persecutors - then the capitalist ruling class can effectively blunt the CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS of the whole working class. And phony " liberal " Democrats can pass themselves off as righteous crusaders for a kinder , more just , more PROGRESSIVE world ! And ZIONIST Jews, so prominent in the Democratic Party, need not be embarrassed by their devotion to APARTHEID Israel . And all LIBERALS can remain comfortable scorning real SOCIALISM and embracing the FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.