Heck, I'm seeing evidence to that in my own country. Where a number of unpopular decisions supported by fallacies are taken by some of our government officials, using some of the most expedient and least democratic tools possible.
There's this article from the French constitution where the prime minister can force the parliament to vote for a particular law without further discussion, unless the parliament gathers enough votes to kick the entire government out (at which point the President has to name another Prime minister). It requires more than half of all congress people (translating/simplifying here), not just more than half of the votes, and lately this procedure was used quite a bit more often than we should be comfortable with.
It seems the end game for those people is maturing corporate capitalism all the way to cyberpunk, though without the cool implants I'm afraid.
i.e. rush the world into some globalist, "sustainable" future as soon as possible and never mind the impact on the regular people. As long as Davos man can still swan about to conferences in a private jet it's all good.
There's this article from the French constitution where the prime minister can force the parliament to vote for a particular law without further discussion, unless the parliament gathers enough votes to kick the entire government out (at which point the President has to name another Prime minister). It requires more than half of all congress people (translating/simplifying here), not just more than half of the votes, and lately this procedure was used quite a bit more often than we should be comfortable with.
It seems the end game for those people is maturing corporate capitalism all the way to cyberpunk, though without the cool implants I'm afraid.