That isn’t fear-mongering or manipulation. It’s reality.
That’s what the Left never mentions when they pitch this ideology to Americans who’ve never lived under it. They dress it up as fairness and call the damage “progress.”
But once the government controls the economy, control doesn’t stay limited. It moves into speech, ownership, permission... and suddenly you have nothing but fear.
That’s how nations stop being free without a single shot being fired.
If America becomes a place where the state decides what you earn, what you keep, and what you’re allowed to say, then freedom isn’t under threat — it’s already gone.