Seriously, give them time. Can't do everything at once. First the books and education, then the internet and airwaves.

@Ceaselessmind There's some truth in that, yes. Especially the last sentence but not so much the first, imo. Once they have the full power they will then shut down communication ability. It will be done with the people's resigned approval, by that time, but it will happen. On the bright side, that's how revolts are created.

@Ceaselessmind And what ARE they (super-rich oligarchs) doing? Fending off demands for socialism and wealth redistribution. That's the only way people like Trump make any sense.
Their ideological cover is "supply-side economics" and Ayn Rand-style Objectivism. Religiously it's Prosperity Christianity.
As you say, it's all a smokescreen. I have the distinct feeling, when the time is right, they will withdraw whatever props they have in place, and the 'system" will collapse entirely, leaving nothing but a despoiled planet with wreckage and ruins laying about. Will their pawns admit THEN they were gullible fools?
No.
They'll blame us, the ones who believed facts and made rational decisions.