And please let's just all stop talking about conspiracy theorists shit.
You're right. It's just a very sore label for me.
To simplify a bit, the changes I see here in Finland have an obvious pattern of consequences, and I think I understand why it is happening. (I could be wrong, of course, but note that I believe everyone involved truly believes they are doing Good. Which also explains why the reaction to any criticism is so hostile: if the criticism is right, then it means people who are working hard for Good, are actually doing Harm, which is obviously unacceptable; therefore the criticism must be incorrect, and thus has to be quashed immediately.)
At the core, the issue is the rise of the middle class in the last hundred years or so.
Classists (communists and socialists and those who want a world with an untouchable elite) are threatened by the middle class, because it is the mechanism how "workers" become "elite", disproving the entire idea behind socialism, showing that it is individual effort, and not class struggle, that determines the fate of the individual. This is the exact core of the entire situation. The "elite", in turn, wants to remove the "middle class", because it is also the mechanism how "elite" can easily fall down to "worker" status; and there is nothing they fear more than that.
So-called leftists want to abolish the middle class, because they recognize that the existence of the middle class threatens their ideology: the idea of a person moving from the working class to middle class based on their own effort, is absolutely incompatible with the socialist-classist worldview. They also don't want to fight a class war on two fronts -- against both the "elite" and the "middle class" ––, so abolishing the middle class is the natural approach.
(They also believe that without the middle class, it'll be easier to overthrow the "elite" and become the new "elite" themselves.)
The elite wants to solidify its position. They fear nothing as much as loss of their "elite" status. Abolishing the middle class is like digging a deep trench between yourself and the thing you fear most; and it also makes the distinction between the "elite" and "working class" much more prominent.
In this light, it is no surprise that the elite and the classist socialists have joined forces against the middle class, common sense, and the core values of Western societies in general. It is quite logical. Most of them truly believe they are doing it for the greater good, too; the "elite" because they truly believe they are better than others –– this being a perfectly natural human reaction; even if the position is based on pure chance, even in games, people who get on top or win, generally believe they did so because they did/played better than the others ––, and the socialists because they believe that societies will do better without a middle class.
Controlling speech is an obvious, crucial step here. Even the way how individual voters in EU have no control over the EU commission, fits perfectly into this picture.
Thing is, historically, it looks like it is exactly the middle class that actually pushes progress and prosperity forwards. The way people can shift between "classes" based on their individual actions seems to be a crucial mechanism for continued prosperity. I would claim it is the reason why education seems to be the most effective way of lifting people out from poverty (ie. that the middle class is proof that personal efforts can make a difference for many people), but I don't have real proof of that. Well, except for how these things have always correlated, both in recent and in ancient history.