“The belief is that we are too far gone, and only a complete collapse can allow us to wrench power from the entrenched elites and thus bring about a new era of personal freedom.”
This was the premise in the 1950’s Sci Fi fiction author Isaac Asimov’s trilogy “The Foundation, The Foundation and the Empire, and The Second Foundation”
It was one of Newt Gingrich’s favorite books.
There were no “the’s” in any of the titles.