I think you are right! N

Even if they understood what they are doing I would expect them to believe they will enjoy the dance while much later someone else will pay the piper - they don't care.

They are being well paid, and their crimes are purposely being hidden by their NWO controllers.
The controllers know that they can't survive the competition in a free market
and that the US must be destroyed for their world domination to be realized.

sorry
no, it is not that simple

they KNOW they are better and smarter than all the rest of us
they KNOW they are better and smarter than all those that failed before them

and some of them are guided by unreasoned hate, so they want the result of the United States falling

On the other hand, maybe not. They'd probably argue, 'It's only a book.' Stupid can't be cured, can it?