I don't think everyone was waking up 20 years ago. Maybe 1/5th, and that's ridiculously optimistic. Just think, 300,000,000 people in the US alone. 6,000,000,000 worldwide. It's more than you can actually imagine. To get that many people to all see and agree on any single truth would be impossible. We are powerless to stop it. It's not even a matter of a global cabal of conspirators; hell that'd make it easier. It's evil people with the will and power to do their evil deeds, slinking their ways safely among the billions of others who otherwise look and speak like them. Monsters in man-suits. Everything has always been the same.