In the economic crisis of the 1970s, the business world seized the opportunity. In the USA in the mid-’70s, you see a point of inflection in overall statistics: mortality, health care costs, incarceration, minimum wage and so on. The US was moving along with most of the rest of the developed world up to the mid-’70s. Then it stops, and the country moves off the spectrum in all these respects. By now, it was the late Carter regime. Then Reagan took over and accelerated it, opened all the spigots. It was the same in the UK under Thatcher. Since then, it has spread all over the world. It’s been a major class war, a brutal class war, which has devastated much of the world and led to tremendous anger, resentment and contempt for institutions. That’s the background out of which you start getting these proto-fascist parties arise in the twenty-first century.
GloboCap (or “the Corporatocracy” if you prefer) has been delegitimizing, demonizing and disappearing dissent, and increasingly imposing ideological uniformity on Western society, since 2016. Once it gets done quashing this “populist” rebellion and imposing ideological uniformity on urban society throughout the West, it will go back to destabilizing, restructuring, and privatizing the rest of the world, which is what it was doing with the “War on Terror” (and other “democracy-promoting" projects) from 2001 to 2016.
The goal of this global Gleichschaltung campaign is the goal of every totalitarian system, i.e., to render any and all deviance from its official ideology pathological. The nature of the deviance does not matter. The official ideology does not matter. (GloboCap has no fixed ideology. It can abruptly change its official “reality” from day to day). In our brave new totalitarian global-capitalist “reality,” anyone who questions or challenges such “facts” immediately renders oneself a “Deviant” and is excommunicated from “Normal” society.