I think we’re headed for European-type socialism. We’re at the tipping point now where the majority of folks are welcoming it with open arms.
There will be no need to bludgeon. :(
Once you become part of the culture of death, killing becomes a very easy solution. Medicare to expensive? Take the blue pill and go away. To many on food stamps? Starve them.
To many thinking wrongthink thoughts? Fire up the ovens.
We went this way before. Not in Europe, but here.
Our socialism will necessarily be more brutal than Europe because we don’t capitulate like they do. Europe went from being ruled by monarchs and aristocrats into socialism. We killed the monarchs and ran them off our soil. Too many Americans still have an inconvenient notion that our rights are granted by God. It’ll take some ugliness to subjugate those bitter clingers.