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Most items from your list sound a whole lot like the path the US is on. I don't believe these things are related to communism or capitalism, but more so to a few people who want to stay powerful and in control.

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This touches on a major point of Nineteen Eighty-Four that many people seem to forget, despite the presence of a very striking monologue about it. I mean, it doesn't get much more explicit than:

> Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.


You are giving too much credit to the elites. The State in itself is a ridiculous creation with full of incompetence at the top. Hence the laws.




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