While doing my investigation I found that in every instance when an agenda, idea, controversial thing was pushed on the populace, it was done by controlling the opposition; by being the opposition. The idea that "they" wouldn't want X since they are trying to shut down X is not merited in the evidence.

This is exactly the kind of thinking we always must entertain. It reminds me of how the so called robber barons and banking cartels in the 1910s publicly opposed the Federal Income Tax Law, and that swayed public opinion in FAVOR of the law because of how they were guided to believe it would hurt the big dogs who were barking the loudest. Well, as it has been documented in a couple of well researched books, that public opinion shift was the exact goal. The income tax law although appearing to harming the wealthy robber barons and banking cartels financially, actually benefited them... because it was not about the amount of money they had in their accounts, it was about controlling the flow of money in a society, which they could easily leverage to their own benefit in a virtual plutocracy. While of course establishing foundations and ensuring loopholes to skirt the downsides of the income tax law.