I tend to think they see us as tools for whatever "progressive" agenda is under way. For instance they build a system around our own behavioral tendencies and add inputs to direct agendas that feed the system. And because they have high levels of resources and media networks spreading through the known world, they can spread one very powerful thing: propaganda.

Add to this the ability to create and pop bubbles (a limited level of currency control) and it begins to become more obvious how they can control --or at least sway--movements.