At some point, ppl will say "yeah I'm not going quietly into that good night" and so long as you have the ability to affect change with your democratic rights, they represent an EXISTENTIAL threat to the wealthy ruling classes. They know you won't to AGREE to literally die so they can keep extracting wealth for perhaps 3 more generations. So you mustn't be allowed to have a choice; fascism accomplishes that. There is no long term - ppl funding fascism now will be dead by then so they don't care