“merely slow down the progress towards a socialist society with its ruling elite?”
At this point that may be the best we can expect. Despite watching it fail and destroy millions of people in the 20th century the United States seems determined to become a socialist state. Unless we can prevent stupid people and parasites from voting, and I don’t think we can, the United States will become a socialist state and subsequently fail completely.
Then let it fail now! If we are men, we should not make our children fight the war we are unwilling to fight when we had the chance.