It’s not a secret that the liberal left forced the conservatives into compliance by threatening them with the specter of Communism. With Communism no longer operating as a specter on the global scene, the elites see no reason not to sacrifice the masses to maintain their power. Again, this is not a secret: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/habermass-bastards
This situation is partly the left’s fault. People like Adorno created a new left centered around cultural conservatism. If leftism is culturally conservative, that replaces the specter of Communism with the specter of Islamism. By and large, most people around the world are repelled by Islamism. This creates a new rightist justification for “civilizational” wars replacing the Marxist trope of national wars.
Snapshots of the Labyrinth 