"Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" given a formal coat of paint.
You live in the age of the walled garden corporate internet. The time you remember of a half dozen search engines, each actually requiring going through multiple pages, and investing effort into figuring out which of two dozen different fansites you found from culling though those were actually good is gone.
Most of that lazy approach lies at the feet of many more people getting easy pocket access to the internet with smartphones, which are much harder and slower to navigate with. Easy first answers and whatever friends recommend get much more popular and sort of turn into black holes catching any other created sites in their orbit and crunching things down to one central source.
As plenty of other people have now explained, once you have that one centrally located critical mass that destroys the ability to have any other reasonable population site discussing something, it turns into a tempting target for outside predators and parasites looking to turn "we discuss this game" into "you must repeat the right politics first if you also want to talk about this game on the side."
Remember one of their dem pillars is to socialize medicine. When the state is paying for healthcare, preventative policy (your freedom of choice be damned) just starts to make financial sense. It's one in a million steps to banning all smoking, alcohol, fatty or sweet foods, etc. It'll keep the lifestyle issues treatment costs way down so they can pocket more of it.
I don't think we've been asleep that long in absolute terms. Remember the days of rage were inside 50 years ago. What you're running into is the twin meeting impacts of all brakes being taken off of inflating fiat currency in 1971, and the 'hard drinking party time' from the cold war ending finally wearing off. For just a little while there you could actually fool yourself into thinking money grew on trees and every enemy had been beaten forever, so the average person stopped caring. Fast forward about four decades of bad inflationary fiscal policy and globalism bleeding the rest of the wealth, and the average working stiff is making too little to really plan for the future, and no longer has any enemy to really celebrate decisively beating to distract them. Barring another 9/11 style super event, Middle East and South American dictatorships getting steamrolled do little to provide that same buzz for the average low info working stiff, and indeed is starting to generate the opposite. That dissatisfaction as pretty much everyone younger than actual Boomers is finding it hard to save up anything has boiled into political extremism growing for both sides. If you can't have a family and legacy under normal circumstances, the obvious next step is to go after the system preventing it.
Unfortunately the polarized ends are so busy arguing about what the resulting landscape should look like, nobody's worried about the massive in control enemy that's in our face: Media, Market Monopolies, and Finance. There's a bad tendency on this sub (forum? We're not really on reddit anymore.) to imagine the power that be want communism when it'll look a lot more like feudal serfdom without any particular care for what morality the underclasses have once they establish power further and reduce the population. I almost hope they make the mistake of letting the left-radicals get further unhinged trying to take more states and the legislature back to speed things along. That barking dog slipping the leash would be terrible for us and most average people, but the would-be puppeteer elite will get caught in the bloody upheaval much as they did in places like Russia trying the same trick of letting communism go 'just far enough' to swoop in behind.
I will agree the single best thing that has come of this recent disruption by Trump and the populists is attention on how corrupt and in-on-the-take the media is directly. The more they scream about being the truth, fact checking, disputing, etc. the better. If you have to say something so much even the slow kids take notice eventually. Fake news becoming a watchword is good news for average people. It's an organ of the uni-party and shouldn't be trusted even if it seems upset with any given neocon for a while, look how they treat Bush Jr. now compared to Trump.
The real sea change will be if radicals on either edge of the spectrum can start pointing the finger at banks and the federal reserve again, instead of leaving it as a libertarian joke of an idea. Occupy came so damn close and was popular with 'both sides' and that's why it got destroyed through the purposeful injection of IdPol that's infested the left radicals ever since. The right wing can't help charging like a bull right back at the cultural and moral aspects when they don't realize they're losing corps and the government because central ownership and dictatorial rule make more money for the people who already have most of it.
This sort of invisible hand privatization of suppression is how tyranny works in this postmodern era. Western governments know open use of soldiers, secret police, and other such jackboots in service of the new god of 'enforced equity of outcome for all' lead to massively unpopular, all the guns pointed inward type failed Soviet state. The oligarchs of communication, both old mass media and new social ones, are the new censors. They also pull the levers of manipulation with these tools until rioters act as the state's new jackboots as needed. It's easy to notice in how the law only ever seems to swing against the defenders in these cases except in the clearest of clearly recorded mistakes. It's beginning to seem to me like the secret police will gladly be privatized too, if the true believers on the people's republic of Twitter and mask screeching Karen's everywhere are anything to go by.
I think that's why people waiting for some kind of AOC-style enemy list to be the breaking point are a bit foolish. Not that such things are fake, but that the system could already have enacted them against us mere serfs if it had any desire to do so. That barking dog useful idiot was publicly ready to quit politics three days later when she was brought to heel and realized what the system really wanted. Indeed, the ones who actually have their hands on the tiller are interested in improving and perfecting the censorship and manipulation techniques until us silly serfs either cease disagreeing with them, or they have enough converted to turn on and purge the rest without the state ever officially lifting a finger. Indeed, when the time comes, it will be made to look like the state is trying to stop the violence while its masters watch with glee.
IMF jet setters and world bankers, easily. We can't have another four years of orange man tanking the petrodollar and hurting the wealth transfer to China, the model they want the rest of the world to hegemonically follow now.
China's '''citizens''' don't question who the debt is owned by and don't stop their government from directly forcing world bank membership and fiat currency on their hegemonic vassals. If the leadership plays along they'll even reap the benefits of being the public facing second tier of world leadership.
What's not to love unless you don't want to be an interchangeable slurry of 80 IQ human economic unit.
Because having that gateway is important. He can feel frustratingly far behind those of us living and breathing the bleeding edge of this stuff, but you have to win recruits long march through the institutions style, and good pace-and-lead efforts by people like this are important to keep tabs on and try to help steer.
Blocking private jets, huh? Amusing to see this BS impact the 'important' people pushing it in some little way, but I doubt they'll learn anything beyond they need to fine tune the messaging until it only impacts the peasants.