It will be almost 100 years since fascism first arose all over the world. The people that had first had experience it back then are likely dead, dying or have no more agency to tell thier stories. Whole populations are literally forgetting the horrors of fascism. Up next in the next few decades, communism! The next fifty years are gonna be fun!
As others have said, we're far enough away from the 1930s and 40s that people have started to forget. People who never experienced anything else are taking democracy for granted.
Agreed, it's the exact same way wars start and end- everyone forgets the horror and gets testy again, then fucks up royally, then makes a bunch of rules to follow to make sure it never happens again, complacency sets in, problems emerge, the cycle repeats ad infinitum up until this point.The generations that saw the world fight over nationalism are dying down. The survivors of those genocides are as well.
Now we have generations of people that are trained to not believe what they read, reading about the holocaust.\
Here's an example: https://www.thejc.com/news/world/in...eard-of-the-holocaust-survey-reveals-1.473131
In France, a fifth of young people 'have never heard of the Holocaust', survey reveals
A third of Europeans say they know either 'just a little' or nothing at all about the events of 75 years ago
War is in our blood, as is the urge to use and abuse fellow people.