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So let’s examine this. We now appear to have a nation in which:

1) Only half the population pays taxes, but a significant amount of the revenues are redistributed by the government to those who don’t pay taxes.
2) The government determines arbitrarily what income is allowed and what income is punished.
3) The government controls health care and wants to put in place a large bureaucracy to determine which therapies are allowed and which are not, and has the power to force those who disagree on religious grounds to pay for procedures they morally oppose.
4) The media has become a propaganda tool.
5) The POTUS states publicly that businesses were not created by individuals (i.e. implying that the ‘owners’ of those businesses don’t really ‘own’ them).
6) Selected government officials are beyond the law and feel free to ignore demands by representatives of the people (i.e. Eric Holder defying and ignoring Congress).
7) Specific demographics that support the ‘regime’ are favored and protected, while those that oppose are persecuted.
8) The sanctity of the vote has been eroded, and efforts to prevent vote fraud and participation by the ineligible are fought by the regime. The populace now questions the accuracy of the vote.
9) The head of the ‘regime’, the POTUS, does not have to prove eligibility to hold office, and citizens can’t challenge because of ‘lack of legal standing’. Those who protest or question are ridiculed.

There are many, many more examples to fill this list.

So why are we any different than the USSR, or communist China, or even Cuba?