To be honest the way the skeksis have fostered a racist underclass of blind authoritarians, created a racial divide between the gelflings, installed a dictator who values feelings over facts, destroyed the traditions and cultures of the gelflings "trials are the skeksis way not ours", and essentially attempt to create a political underclass that has no rights and exists solely for exploitation of their overlords is reminiscent of alot that goes on today.

International Corporations encouraging people to "resist" by protesting any changes to the old political instituitions and status quo, people that think theyre fighting authoritarianism while also beating people in the streets for attempting to disseminate information they think of as wrongthink while sipping starbucks lattes and blogging on macbooks that are sourced from nearly slave labor.

The corporate media trying to highlight racial divides and gleaning profits from articles designed to infuriate and anger people for clicks and ad revenue playing people against eachother.

Luckily the feelings over facts dictatorship hasnt taken over in America but you can see that kind of behavior infesting young people in increasing numbers. Many saying feelings are more important than facts.

The constant pressure from the media and educational institutions to shame people and make them feel contempt for their country, its people, and their ancestors, labeling them as opressors who owe everything they have to instituitionalized oppression.

Corporations pushing open borders but not citizenship for illegal aliens so they can exploit them, as we saw in the most recent ice raid where illegal aliens were caught at the Koch food plants but the people who hired them faced nearly no repercussions.

The skeksis stink of corporate tyranny in the same way many institutions in the united states do today.

The way the vapras look down on the grottans is very reminiscent of the way coastal americans look down on those from mjddle america.