Mine awakened in 60s - it started with reading “A Choice Not and Echo” by Phyllis Schlafly. The dirty tricks by Nixon to get the 1960s Nomination.
An obscure paragraph about the Kingmakers - a group called the Bilderbergers, and they called her crazy, but it really took the internet to be able to do the research needed, and more time to do it, before the many tentacles became known.
MinuteGal knew her personally. Schlafly was a true pioneer.
I should have awakened with Jimmy Carter... instead pulled a Unibomber thing {opposite politics, no bombs} and became a hermit out in the mountains of Tennessee.