> It looks like the cause of the disease, but it's just the current carrier, like a zombie beetle carrying around wasp larvae. I'm not even sure it's "patient zero", I think those pod people ate up organized religion before they caused it to collapse

Good insight.

Unfortunately, the "Struggle Sessions" of Mao and Killing Fields tell us it will likely be doubling down and more extreme versions of current leftist ideology until everything collapses.