Maybe this will help....
I have dreamed of (eventually) seeing a TV miniseries about this whole thing in which characters LITERALLY wear white hats and black hats. And maybe — at a specific moment — a character takes off their BLACK hat and walks out of the room wearing a WHITE hat and maintains that hat for the rest of the series. Or whatever. Make it Super Obvious what is going on.
Because this level of corruption feeds off the idea of “I give up! I can’t figure what’s going on! Hey! Is American Idol on?”
I believe that at its deep heart, this is really pretty simple — but no one really tries to tell the story that way. And although I believe it is simple, I do not understand it thoroughly, and so I am not the guy who is able to tell it Super Simple.
Maybe this will help....
Ok, here’s the simple story. Until the founding of the USA, the history of the world is a history of tyranny. The founding of the USA upended that paradigm. Would-be tyrants need to put the genie of liberty back in the bottle. So far, Americans have resisted and a small group of pseudo elite (who think they are better than the rest of us) are trying to convince us that they know what’s best for us better than we do so that we will willingly forfeit our liberty for their benevolent tyranny.
So far, it’s not working and they can’t figure out why. They are the best and brightest, after all ;)