We, the people, are the good guys. It's our government leaders that are evil and corrupt. Recently finished the book, "Chaos - Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties."
This crap has been going on a long time but it's only in recent years, with the advent of the internet and all of the alternative media, that we're just now figuring out how long our own government has been corrupt and downright evil.
The formation of the Administrative State, also known as the Deep State, first started during the Woodrow Wilson Administration and continued on in the Roosevelt Administration because they wanted to work around that pesky little Constitution document. That's when things were turned over to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. Things starting going sideways since then.
