The Left is leading the charge to world totalitarian government with China's "social credit" system as the model.
It's not only the liberal-left. So-called conservatives are advocating CBDCs all over the western world. In my local hardware store a sign has appeared saying "please pay by card where possible, to minimise cash-handling".
I make a point of using cash there, unless it's a big purchase. Nobody objects.
FFS we've used cash for centuries, yet the sheeple are so gullible that somehow they (still) fear an agonizing death from handling cash.
Our TV aired the movie "TOTAL TRUST - SURVEILLANCE STATE" - a 90 minute documentary filmed in China following the fate of the wife of a lawyer who was incarcerated for defending those fallen foul of the system. Chilling stuff, seeing her & others showing their phone "health pass" to enter a store, she being blocked as it turns from green to yellow. Elsewhere, farmers protesting in a street demo find theirs have all turned to red - just by facial recognition technology / China's billions of CCTV cameras.