To be elected, you need campaign finance. Once you've received your donations you pretty much aren't free to act in any way except for how they say.
Genuine people, good people, fair people, these don't make it onto ballot. The sneaks, the crooks, the backstabbers, these are the names you see and hear.
That's what the Ukraine war is, a live fire demonstration of modern warfare so some up-and-coming allahu akbar can take notes and feel confident continuing to enrich uranium.
Spy drone could be Iranian, or the default guess I think is China.
"Dark" because there wasn't much written. Not much written--because it was all on their cloud servers...
Power goes out, server goes down, everything's lost and history is forgotten. The future generations assume you're an oogabooga spearchucking farmer.
We're in a dark age right now. After the power goes dark and then is eventually restored, the future elites will teach the children that we were illiterate nomadic farmers.
It happened the same globally for each nation: it was a clearly bad idea from day 1, all the objections were suppressed, all the poison distributed, then suddenly the entire world's decision-making bodies simultaneously discover the vax is poison...
It's an attempt at human extinction. Whether it's from approaching aliens, rogue AI, or simply evil humans, I'm not sure the distinction matters anymore.
Instead of Organize against the government, why not just Chaos against the government. That way they can't stop it and also you don't have to say incriminating things online. Just come up with the thing you want to do and do it.
Climate shifts due to orientation makes a lot more sense to me than the "once we hit X amount of CO2 the world heats to boiling" idea.