Tell me we are here now? What to do next?

“This year we explored the failure of democracy. How our social scientists brought our world to the brink of chaos." Please tell me we aren't here already? Then "We talked about the veterans, how they took control and established the stability that has lasted for generations since." and lastly on the how “When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers,