The recurring themes we kept coming back on over the show were:

Have we entered a climate where a French Revolution style megapolitical shift is looming?

The pesky phenomenon of the ole coup-within-a-coup, a.k.a the "Power Play" as per the 1978 Peter O'Toole political thriller of that name.

The difference between "objective reality" that everybody thinks exists and "authoritative reality", which for all intents and purposes, is what actually matters.