One of the first things the Rowboat does after coming out of his princess Aurora sleep is to dissolve democracy and replace it with a military dictatorship beca

One of the first things the Rowboat does after coming out of his princess Aurora sleep is to dissolve democracy and replace it with a military dictatorship because he gets sick of free people not just following his opinion. This happens in the plague war trilogy by the way, and don’t worry, it’s not a major spoiler in any way. I guess some people can paint that as a good thing, but I think that for most people its pretty evil. It also plays a small part, however, with the bigger points of sarcasm and critical tone moving on to things like organised religion, fake news and manipulation of hearts and minds. I do agree that some, maybe even most, of the sarcasm targeting Reaganism that was the foundation for the lore back in the 80ies is weaker in the new official lore. But I think that is just because the current writers are moving on to make fun of more modern things like the anti-intellectuals you see on the far-right today. I do think they are much more successful with that in Age or Sigmar than in 40K, but I don’t think they are writing the imperium to be the good guys either. Sure some people will see “humans” as the good guys, and sure, a lot of the anti-fascism is going to be lost on some people, but it honestly always has been.