Hegar

The extreme concentrations of power in fewer and fewer individuals that we see in many countries is definitely one driver of global fascism.

But russian influence operations is another big driver, as are increasing poverty and general resource-stress and anxiety brought about by climate crisis and the stasis inflicted by incompetent governments which haven’t produced meaningful, beneficial change for their people in decades.

The person that you are now is not the person that you would be if you grew up in that situation.

That me is a stranger to this me I have no basis to guess what that stranger might do.