Perhaps even to die.

"They" are almost all Totalitarians. Particularly the Left and their World Government wet dream.

She'll be 121 years old on February 2nd.

What would she say? Usually it was something that nobody was expecting.

It's looking like that in many ways.

Honestly, I think she would have been less pithy and more wordy.
But she would have described it as "angling for power". And "not particularly to do what the voters want, but for themselves, and the systems that keep you enslaved"...

Closing with something along the lines of: "As long as the can get the voters to wait in line to cast votes for such scoundrels, the elites are winning... They only lose when the majority refuse to have any of it, and go on Strike, or leave and create their own Gulch"

And then she thinks she has a story idea about everyone going on strike...

Read, carefully, the first paragraph of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. That's exactly the point.