The liquidation of the United States began on January 3, 2021, three days before the failed coup attempt. The Holocene period ended on December 31, 2020, and the Anthropocene period that began one day later marked the beginning of the Dark Age that Haque talked about. The seeds of this age began to be planted shortly before the financial crisis of 2008, which caused austerity measures to be implemented by most governments in the years following the crisis in an attempt to reduce the sovereign debts. Although the measures worked in some countries initially, the measures caused poverty to increase among the population, resulting in a major increase in support for neofascist parties. The elections of several leaders like Bolsonaro in the 2018 Brazilian election thus exemplied the role in how such countries reject modernity.