It’s just capitalism reaching it’s end stages. Fascism arises either when capitalism is threatened or when it has eaten itself and its contradictions become too great for liberal “democracy” to ignore.
With climate change, refugees from wars and disasters, micro plastics and other pollutants, the waning of social programs, job market collapse across the world, collapsing birth rates, inflation, energy, and a hundred other things, capitalism is reaching its end stage.
There really are only a few options from here. And honestly I only see two major ones: either the rich win and we have literal slavery world wide (not wage slavery, actual no pay, no benefits, no nothing slavery) held up by hyper surveillance and armed bots/drones, or we break capitalism and move onto something better.
If you live in the USA, the cops can now legally force you to unlock your phone using biometrics. And I mean I guess they can also illegally (and whose gonna stop them) force you to open your phone with a passcode or pattern as well. But it’s a lot easier for them to hold your finger on a scanner or your phone to your face than make you type in the code.
Always interesting how people down vote without any dialogue. Like… Sure you don’t owe me any explanation, but idk it would be cool to hear people’s opinions instead of just some downvotes.