This country fell w/o a single shot,....
True but it actually fell to the Global Elites a long time ago.
It helped greatly that they convinced the "good" people to slavishly worship "The Law" instead of what is actually right or correct.
It's for example why we don't actually functionally have any 2A "Rights" we functionally only have 2A "Privileges".
When the good folks let Administrators and unelected bureaucrats take the reigns of functional power and functional law it was game over.
When they let the congress critters pass off their responsibilities to various "agencies", the checks and balances were gone.
When they let the police, judges, agencies & politicians get granted some special "immunity" at citizen expense for their actions, why would they ever expect anything but the worst from a class of folks that are near untouchable?
The divide and conquer has worked amazingly well. Especially on the "good" people who think themselves so virtuous. It's why I rail constantly about how the whole "war on drugs" was much like "the war on terror" nothing more than a smokescreen for the total war on civil liberties and individual freedom. Nobody learns the lessons from prohibition, they still fall for the.... drugs are bad... give up all your rights and we'll fix the "scourge"...
Anyone with an understanding of history can point to the many events throughout the past 100 years or so where the Global Elites got what they wanted and put in place the systems to turn back the clock on freedom and revert the country to the old Feudal system. We are just now at the end stage of the game where anyone not totally stupid can see the end staring them in the face.
But even with that, many will still vote to continue the march to the end, because they want to get as much as they can for themselves while they can, only caring about the here and now, and themselves.