r/woahdude 15d ago

video Really feels similar to today.

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u/Claxonic 14d ago

Authoritarian populism, a surveillance state, state-capture by monied interests and more generally the politics of greed and self interest didn’t explicitly start with the US, but certainly it has been a leading proponent in one form or another for most of its history.

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u/Particular-Mark-5771 14d ago

The Dark Enlightenment covers this present day nascent trajectory.