Yes, and I don't have my presidents very straight but could have started under Reagan, Carter???. The dates for them are in that timeframe. He was a Democrat and most of the time I knew him goes way back to the early 60's, but is an ardent Republican now, very patriotic, and spends much time helping disabled veterans because he knows how to cut through red tape.
One of the articles he wrote was published (unclassified) in a defense magazine; he got an award for it. I can ask if he still has a copy of it.
He wrote a more recent one which I was supposed to edit, clean up, and I got permission to publish here, but I never did, partly because I wasn't involved for some years and couldn't field questions or responses to it. Now it's stuck on my old hard drive which never crashed but I had taken out of that computer B4 I junked it.
Started? No, it started long ago, long before any of us now were even born. We just have the unfortunate destiny to be close to the final phase. The reason so many cannot see where this is leading is that they have been deliberately blinded, by an apparatus which has been in place for almost a century, constantly tuning, tweaking, and refining its technique in the art of misdirection.
When did it begin? Nobody can truly say with any certainty, but the first *major* event came in December of 1913, when the abomination known as the Federal Reserve was created, and Congress totally abdicated its responsibility under the Constitution, giving it, and untold power, to a band of ruthless, power-hungry bankers, who had a dream of "one world government". It has been all downhill from there.
We, and by that, I don't mean just the United States, but the entire world, started down that slippery slope which was meant to lead to a global despotism then, and we have just about hit the bottom of said slope...
the infowarrior