One day this whole period will be looked back on by academics/thinkers as a blatant example of just how undemocratic our so called democracies are/were (that, or it's techno/neo-feudalism all the way down).

Not too sure about that SB. If it is, it'll be an obscure academic tome published without fanfare and overlooked / ignored by the mainstream. Either that or as an article in some niche "left-wing" journal and regarded as a curiosity. The barbarians are not at the the gates, they're inside the gates and we are all well and truly fecked.