How so? Now it is happening, exponentially. Before, you could kinda see the train down the tracks and still say, "well, maybe it's not headed here, maybe it will switch tracks"...Now those lights are in clear view and you can hear the whistle.
Maybe to you it was clear 100 years ago, we are in the THICK of it now and most of the people around you at the grocery store, at work, etc. --they don't have a frikking clue what's happening, how it happened and what it means to them.
The Progressive Democratic triumph of 1912 led directly to the income tax, US involvement in WWI, Prohibition and most terribly the notion that governments could do “good” things, even “great” things. American-style socialism is the direct linear result of this tragedy.
Socialism, broadly considered, is not merely public ownership of property; it is the notion that “the Good of Society” can be identified and then made public policy. The notion of liberal civilization never survived this revolution; we are all socialists now, whether you like it or not. In the long run, the regime will collapse; in the short run we have to endure its strictures or go to prison.
Unless you are writing from exile or prison, you are submitting to the current socialist regime. This is the real historical world.