Cycnical job at the unbridled optimism from the Arab Spring era where people were mostly overthrowing one type of absolute ruler for another, when the main driver was inflation/food&energy costs.

Well it was either sugar water or democracy and we can't have democracy.

You are incorrectly assuming there is a coherent thought or sentence that was cut off.

There is a fairly common communication trend of presenting incomplete cynical statements without a logical conclusion. I think they trade more on sentiment and vibe than fact or logic.

If you don’t know, you don’t want to know.

+1, very curious what completes the phrase