"My teen years were spent in radical right-wing groups. The paranoia was intoxicating."

>Two sides of the same coin if you ask me. The difference I see is that one side does has very recent examples of government abuse to point at wheras the gender paygap is almost nonexistent if you factor in work hours and profession. "The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967, and officially halted in 1973.[3] The program engaged in many illegal activities,[4][5][6] including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as its unwitting test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.[4](p74)[7][8][9] MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis,[10][11] sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse (including the sexual abuse of children), and other forms of torture.[12][13]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra There might be a lot of rumors about MKUltra that are most probably bullshit and it became part of pop-culture in for example stranger things, but it is a program that actually existed with real declassified documents according to which **the U.S. Government has tortured and sexually abused children.** "The scope of Project MKUltra was broad with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including colleges and universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies.[14] The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement.[15]" "In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to project MKUltra which led to Senate hearings later that year.[4][17] Some surviving information regarding MKUltra was declassified in July 2001." >but that everybody is out to get you or what you have. Not "everybody" that's an exaggeration that is obviously wrong. However for one money has been grossly devalued by inflation https://inflationdata.com/articles/charts/cumulative-inflation-decade-1913/ to a big part due to national debt. National debt is to take money away from future generations to pretend that our current system works. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Bernie Sanders could have had been president, that guys has an article on his official website praising venezuela: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?" Which is a failed socialist state were people eat zoo animals out of desperation: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/19/hungry-venezuelans-break-into-caracas-zoo-and-butcher-a-horse/ Is it really a conspiracy theory akin to the gender pay gap that governments may take your stuff away? It is a very real thing right now in Venezuela, not far away from the U.S. There are current and lots of historic examples from the last 100 years.