Yep. This is it. There is definitely blackmail occurring at some scale, and mass surveillance is definitely being used to conduct a lot of political corruption and espionage, but the overarching theme is that the winners of capitalism are no different to the kings and queens of history, and are using their capital to seize the means of democracy, returning the majority to dictatorships of feudalist servitude, and they haven’t even been quiet about their psychopathy or megalomania.