When the people in charge believe that "x only works if everybody does it" and x is some drastic power grab, we end up with tyranny worse than plague, and worse

When the people in charge believe that "x only works if everybody does it" and x is some drastic power grab, we end up with tyranny worse than plague, and worse than meters of sea-level rise, and a global war because the people of the west will not surrender to third-world lifestyles without a fight, nor will people of the third-world consent to remain where they are without a fight.