Is the USA becoming a socialistic country and ultimately a totalitarianism regime and, if so, can the direction the USA is headed be reversed?

[Kelley1]

Socialism Leads to Totalitarianism - Friedrich A. Hayek

Totalitarianism, form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.

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Perhaps better than anyone, Yeonmi Park knows what it is like to live under totalitarism and the direction the USA is headed. In her book, “While Time Remains” she wrote, “I wrote this book. Because I escaped hell on earth and walked across the desert in search of freedom, and found it… Because I don’t want anything bad to ever happen to my new home. Because I want us—I need us—to keep the darkness at bay.”

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

At least it seems to be moving in that direction.

There's a general problem from my software engineering perspective with the concept of bigger governments. It's not just the greater level of interference in people's lives. It's also the general tendency for bureaucracies to expand and expand their systems without having sufficient incentives to simplify their systems.

So we seem to get the most extreme case of the metaphorical code bloat where the systems become so convoluted that no one can ever understand the effects of changing it anymore. Any attempt at trying to correct the analogical bug tends to introduce additional bugs. New code tends to be piled on top without existing code ever removed or modified. The whole thing just turns into a complete mess.

A way to improve the problem from my perspective is to impose a constitutional cap on government spending. Perhaps we can operate according to Hauser's Law and cap that at ~19.5% of GDP (although I think it would help to go a tad tighter and towards the bottom range of the percentage, like 18%), or simply base it on tax revenue:

Then congress should suddenly have some incentives and need to optimize efficiency of the public sector, to prioritize, to simplify, to make disciplined cuts, and to avoid running deficit after deficit. There's no incentive to optimize when there's no real incentive for fiscal responsibility.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Somewhat of a similar mindset to your proposal to allow students in debt to declare bankruptcy to encourage fiscal responsibility in those providing student loans. When there's lack of incentives to be fiscally responsible, things seem to get increasingly unaffordable, inefficient, and convoluted. When there are strong incentives for spenders to spend more wisely, things seem to become the opposite: more affordable, more efficient, less convoluted.

[Kelley1]

Thank you for your splendid analysis.

[BCA6010]

Sort of. What the federal government has been doing particularly during the Obama and even moreso Biden administrations appears to be deliberate decimation of the country, creating new problems with fake "solutions" that serve only to grow government and expand its scope while constantly gaslighting the public to not believe what is clearly in front ofnthem. Considering how almost all aspects of the Bill of Rights are under attack at the same time, it appears as if total upheaval with a new constitution out of necessity from a "failed" country is the goal. However, the new government under these people would look more like a fascist oligarchy serving globalist interests than a socialist dictatorship, most similar to modern China minus nationalist tendencies. The fact that they keep projecting every abuse of power that they're currently doing onto disruptors like Donald Trump seems to reinforce this theory.

*Keep in mind that even though I singled out Obama and Biden's administrations (almost the same exact people), major pushes in this direction also happened under Wilson, FDR, Johnson, and Bush Jr, and tend to be supported by the elites of both parties.

[Dargil]

If Republicans take the senate house and presidency this year that can be averted or delayed. If they don't, and we continue to descend into hell, there will be a Second Amendment solution. And our enemies will begin to prevail. I think the future looks grim.

[DryGermanGuy]

You always recognize an outside-academia American when they take a word and overanalyze, overthink and overattribute it to the point of failing to see the forest for the trees. Example: Nazi-Germany. „They have the word socialism in it!!! They really was lefties!!!“ 🙄🤦‍♂️

[RebelinSteel]

Both parties are too far right to be Socialist parties. The Democrats are in places far more right of centre than Conservative Party. Nothing even close to Lib Dem’s or heaven forbid a socialist party like the Labour Party.

[Alexandrubaschet08]

USA is incompatible whit the socialism or communism ideology my nature.
The proposition "get out OF MY property" is in theyr blood + the second amendament will kill any intention of comunization of the nation.

[Zestyassmf1997]

No. The US is becoming totalitarian without socialism.

[standardguy]

The worst is: We will have soon a humanist (socialistic) world government oppressing true christians.

The end of all that is the return of JC in the clouds.

[TallAnon]

The USA is nowhere near that, get your healthcare sorted and we'll talk again.

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course. But it Will never happen.

[Kelley1]

"When I tell my American friends and colleagues that certain development in the United States remind me of North Korea, they typically cock their head and smirk. When I clarify that I am referring not to the quality of life or system of government, of course, but to the control of institutions by a small of people eager to punish disenters, it doesn't help--they still look away in embarrassment." Yeonmi Par. k. Clearly she could be describing you.

[Opinion Owner]

It will never happen.