[CM30]

Nah, it won't be the 'ruling class' who'll steer us towards fascism. For better or worse (probably worse right now), their philosophy seems to come down to 'don't rock the boat, don't change anything', regardless of it changing anything would benefit anyone else.

What will potentially steer us that way is the frustration felt by everyone else, and the folks waiting in the wings to take advantage of a bad situation to push various extremist philosophies and ideas. That may be fascism (which in turn may or may not be Nazi like), it may be communism, it may be religious theocracy esque beliefs or something else. Whatever it is, crazy extremists are usually outside of the system, and thrive in chaos.

[KozmoNau7]

The western World has been sliding deeper and deeper into corporatism and crony capitalism. It has happened so gradually that many think it's just the status quo, but it really isn't.

It's a natural consequence of the death spiral capitalism has put us into, of uncontrolled consumerism and an insane instence on ever-increasibg growth and "productivity".

We need to slow down.