This site makes a case I've been considering for a while now - that the current US administration is basically a puppet government for techno-oligarchs.
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
While we're all focused on Trump and Epstein, Thiel and his morbid band of ghouls are replacing public infrastructure with private suveillance.
And I guarantee you the Dems - should they win - will do nothing to tear this down.
No politician will save you.
We are on our own.