Never seems to matter how many horror stories are written or have actually happened regarding totalitarian states, people just seem drawn to them, like they can

Never seems to matter how many horror stories are written or have actually happened regarding totalitarian states, people just seem drawn to them, like they can't help themselves. What absurd news to be hearing in 2025, that "western liberal democracy" states are discussing whether to have the power to listen in on everyone's conversations - something Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia could have only dreamed of.