I always found the Starnsville chapter to be frightening.
For example, when the older woman needed an operation but was murdered so that ration of health care could be given to someone else. Death panels anyone?
It’s one of the most frightening - and prophetic - chapters in the book. And then when they go searching for Starnes’ daughter and find her and Dagny thinks to herself, “Remember this woman’s face. This is the face of evil,” as she was nattering on about her failed utopia. That was one of the chapters that made me start cutting “friends” who espouse this crap out of my life. If they believe in socialism, they are evil. Bottom line.