Lotta hype in there.
Unfortunately, a lot more truth than hype.
I think that many of these types of messages get it wrong because they try to "humanize" the face of evil around us. They want it to be identifiable as 'These Bankers", "These Politicians", etc. They paint it as a well orchestrated cabal....and lose the audience in the process...."'nothing to see here. 'nother Tin Foil Hat with a camera".
Rather, what they need to pursue is the fact that Bureaucracies (all of them) are as chaotic as groups of individuals....but what each seeks is its own continued survival and growth. Each is very much a Life Form. Little wonder that a series of Executive, Judicial and Legislative Bureaucracies would perpetrate and perpetuate the myths of unapportioned taxes, worthless paper and a Federal Reserve System. Each of these started with baby steps; nobody thought they were bending the rules too much; and so it's been with every generation of bureaucrat since- they only ask a "little more", to assure their future, their job and their Agency.
This is the nature of Bureaucracy on all levels, I think. Various Bureaucracies need not walk lockstep to some vague PuppetMaster's tune. They need no Master Plan. But the future growth and survival of each is a zero sum gain....someone has to pay for it. And, in the end, there is no one from whom to take additional Power or Money other than the constituents which it "serves".
I think this was the concern of Jefforson and others who embraced the concept of "friendly competitor" States. They knew that anything on a Federal level would become "evil" and wished to limit that growth to "necessary evils". No tax authority; no standing army; no central bank....stuff like that.
Rich