the governments final power grab will happen once military robots and drones become the norm. At that point the government will no longer have to worry about soldiers following orders and we will slip into endless totalitarianism
Drones and robots have to have controllers. And those controllers will have bosses. All vulnerable to various things. But they won’t rely on those. The have their totally corrupt FBI, ATF, etc. who will follow any order kind of like Hitler’s SS or Stalin’s NKVD. One day these minions will go to kill some totally paranoid prepped who actually prepared for them and things won’t go their way. At this point they MIGHT realize they’re outnumbered about 100 to 1 and back off, but probably they’ll double down on repression.