Don’t have the link, but in America at least, the prevalence of partisanship has been in lockstep with economic inequality.

As in, the greater the economic inequality, the greater that people have voted in Republicans that refused to cooperate with democrats on things like bills and initiatives, and who were further and further to the right. It’s also why those states with the biggest economic gaps between poor and wealthy also have the most batshite-crazy Republican governors and other elected members.

So it’s not resources that are encouraging fascism - it’s a failure to tax the Parasite Class appropriately such that wealth trickles back down to the working class. Because with obscene wealth comes obscene opportunities to tilt the political landscape in ways that encourages corporatism (the original name for fascism) and greases the system towards even more wealth accumulation by the Parasite Class. And now with almost all social services getting dismantled by DOGE, it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse in America.

Yes, ignorance and stupidly account for a majority of Republican voters who are not multi-millionaires many times over. But poor people are too busy surviving to have any energy to think critically. So many of them just reach out for those exceedingly simple answers to complex problems that also promise to solve all of their problems, but never actually do.

Lol if you think that the oil companies are ever going to let go of their money machine, they will simply change to fusion and continue to charge us for power

In the past 10 years, we watched electric cars go from the Utopian dream to a force for corporate evils to control you. What mental gymnastics are you doing to conclude that fusion would be totally different?

They said this about the rise of fission, electricity, steam power, computers. The extra production was either captured by capitalists, or simply didnt materialze. What's different this time?

No, if you want to see that era of global prosperity, you need to address a lot of deep, fundamental issues that humanity has trouble even acknowledging let alone actually acting toward fixing. edit: Though, stopping fascism would be a necessary first step.

The light is an oncoming fascism train and you're smiling at it like it's the sun.

Kill all the billionaires. That’s it. Leave even one and it will comtinue.

Appreciate your attempt at looking at the brighter side of things. I'm still down in the well though and can't see any light at the top.

I hope so, but I feel like big oil is gonna kill it somehow.

I still have faith in humanity. Things get rough sometimes but I think we'll pull through.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-top-countries-by-wealth-per-person/

Average wealth per adult in the US is five times higher than median. Average wealth per adult in the world (well, across the 39 countries measured) is ten times the median. The difference between average (mean) and median (middle) is because a huge amount of wealth is concentrated in a small number of people.

Whether there is a vast surplus of resources or not isn't relevant. Resources are power, and power enables collection of more resources.

Even largely upscaled renewables would be nice.

Techno fascism will occupy most of the output of nuclear fusion to power AI centers and build automated robotproducts. Sorry buddy, but nuclear fusion is Completely and directly playing into the techno fascists hands

Fascism is a consequence of capitalism. Free (or very cheap) energy would not end capitalism outright, it would just reduce a cost in how profit is made.

The only hope for our collective future is socialist organizing. I highly recommend that anyone interested begin reading about the topic using books written by socialists and by joining a socislist organization or attending their events.