Caring about your neighbours and spending time with them is literally the first step to creating a better world. The powers that be most definitely do care about community resilience because it makes them harder to control.

This is exactly why I’ve been trying to move over to the fediverse a bit, I feel like it tries to live up to some of the promises of the early net.

Authoritarianism applies to both sides, and the middle. Fascism is a right wing authoritarian ideology.