My wife grew up in the Soviet Union. The way the system worked was that as long as you kept your mouth shut, the government would keep you sheltered with an adequate supply of food and vodka. It was a very safe environment for drunken mindless sheep, and the top 10% lived like kings.
That is the Democrat’s goal for America – a safe place for stoned, mindless sheeple, who work to support the lavish lifestyle of the political elite.
The worst bit as I have heard was to live three generations with a single bedroom, thereby saying bye-bye to any privacy quite early in life.
The greatest threat to personal freedom in the US is the federal government.
“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money – and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there was no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being – the self-made man – the American industrialist. / If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose – because it contains all the others – the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity – to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The worlds ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.” – Ayn Rand (“Atlas Shrugged”, 1957)