I feel more and more it's just a matter of watching all countries be destroyed by their governments, one law at a time. One country after another giving the green light to agencies to cancel bank accounts without warrants or without sentencing. One after another forcing ID verification to use devices. One after another passing laws prohibiting vague types of speech, subject to their judgement of whether your speech qualifies. One after another passing laws against protesting in public. One after another taking guns from citizens. It's just a constant stream and no country seems to be moving in the other direction. Is this what preceeded the ‘Age of Revolutions’ in the 1700s? It obviously has a lot further to go before it touches regular people that way, but there is a point at which people just break from the system entirely and want a new one. Maybe it's because no one has presented a new one yet, so people are depressedly resigned to a hopelessness that any effort, any revolution, will just transfer power from one harmful government to another set of people doing the same, and maybe with increased powers and reduced constraints.
Regulatory capture and backroom deals, a possible Democrat issue.