For me, the point of my awakening was pre-Q, when an incident known as the so-called "vanishing" of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-370 occurred. There's just way too much surveillance over our skies for me to believe the BS that was relayed by MSM outlets after that. And after that, it was one rabbit hole after another that led me towards getting the full picture of what was truly up. My only real exposure to "conspiracy theories" prior to this point was the (extremely little) knowledge that the rap community (for e.g. Immortal Technique) were speaking about things such as the Illuminati and 9/11 and Reptilians and all of that stuff, and, like any other normie, I refused to believe it. At that time, I clubbed it all in with "tinfoil hatter nonsense", like how the normies now club anything that sounds unbelievable with "flat earther nonsense" and such. But yes, after that flight disappearance incident, I pretty much woke up full-scale in about less than 6 months or so.
What's your awakening story?
Short answer is no, sadly. Down here in Texas anyhow, gotta say no. In fact I'd say it's the opposite, there is more hate and agenda today, more Evil and sheer corruption.
Back then we had black panthers and SLA terrorists and gangs, sure, but they were a relatively smaller sample of the population. Government, media and academia had only just begun welfare slaving their agendas into reality you see, born of LBJ's Great Society agenda. He claimed he would have (blacks) voting democrat for the next 200 years because of his welfares and other grifts you see.
Today we see results of that programming and structuring, that breeding of hatreds into Society with more people sucked into the miasma of Evil, of victimhood, of the soft bigotries and hypocrisies of lowered expectations and the real dumbing down of Society thru junk academia.
No, I have to say it is worse today, sheila jackson lee and madmax waters have weaseled their voices into black churches and kept the herds from thinking. They may understand they don't like masks but if they must wear a mask to get that welfare check they will do so. A lot of them truly do embrace the woke crap, the queer crap and defund the police crap and all that appeals to them more than does the Rule of Law. Mostly their greeds and hatreds outweigh their morality and ability to reason.
There are real reasons why schools in Oregon, think it's Oregon, are dropping math and science as being racis. Throw out God, water down academics and soon doctors and 'scientists' and government and media can all lie with impunity..
Since you are in Texas, do you listen to E. T. Williams, The Doctor of Common Sense? I love him. I don't listen to him as often as I used to because I follow this site more, but I do enjoy his commentary. He has a great story about being visited by the Secret Service a few years ago...after making comments about Obama and "Jeh" Johnson and a baseball bat...
Never heard of the guy, just looked him up and see he sells podcasts.