I see a new elitism emerging (well it’s not new really, rather an acceleration in the direction we’ve been heading for the last several decades), with a leftwing face, out of both the neoconservative and neoliberal movements, as a reaction to both the resurgence of rightwing populism and to a lesser extent the resurgence of leftwing populism in the late 10s.
The same people behind the neolibcons, that is the banksters, multinationals and deep state, are behind it.
Militarily it’s hawkish, altho it wears the mask of the dove.
Politically it’s autocratic, plutocratic and technocratic, absolutist and authoritarian, altho it wears the mask of liberal democracy.
Fiscally it’s champagne socialism.
In theory it favors progressive taxation, but in practice the overclass pays none of the taxes and big business is underregulated while the upper, middle and working classes pay all the taxes and small businesses are overregulated.
Corporations receive superlative welfare while the poor receive subsistence.
They claim to be fighting ‘misinformation’, ‘climate change’, ‘pandemics’, ‘patriarchy’ and ‘white supremacy’.
In truth they want an increasingly dumbed-down, infertile and sick population totally dependent on pharmaceuticals, divided against and isolated from one another, incapable of thinking for and organizing itself.
I believe the elite know the masses are beginning to get fed up with them, so rather than spend the next several decades fighting grassroots reformists and revolutionists, they intend to lead the revolution ‘against themselves’, trade in our slowly decaying, increasingly illiberal and undemocratic, crony capitalist and authoritarian order lead by them, for a champagne socialist and totalitarian order also with them at the helm.
And if we don’t start practicing noncompliance and supporting 3rd parties and independents, they’ll get their way, that is if socioeconomic collapse isn’t inevitable.
This’ll lead to the rise of one big or a series of small woke totalitarian autocracies/technocracies in North America, Western Europe and Australia, with the plutocracy, as usual, pulling the strings behind the scenes, altho perhaps they’ll get devoured too in the end.