Correct but it will still continue.
That is the flash point: The long con ends when the suckers say No Mas.
I had a big sat dish back in the 90s. News feeds weren’t encrypted and we watched the Second Russian Revolution raw, without sound. Also got to watch the editing feeds, for a time.
Anyway, big, burly workers, the so-called heart of the proletariat, were calmly and methodically stacking those little Russian cars up in barricades, then reinforcing it with whatever else they could find. The former true believers, those in whose name the Bolsheviks first took power, were the front lines against the commies, 70 years later.
In the blue cities, it’s now 50 years of the long con and even those who were convinced they were profiting have had enough. No money. No votes. No presence. They will fall just like the USSR.