Yep. The appetite for control, surveillance, AI nudging, etc becomes understandable when you realise that fiat leaders such as the UK's Keir Starmer, France's Macron and Germany's Merz are just about...
Which boggles the mind that, how did such "black plague level popular" leaders get elected in the first place? None of them are impressive or charismatic in any way, but here we are with 3 court jesters running 3 of the most powerful nations in Europe.