I said nothing to you about living in a dream but if you think that the people did not just vote for a lawless extra-Constitutional government perhaps you are.
I believe the biggest problem is ignorance which is the result of education or rather the lack of it. A country this size cannot support socialism and maintain the present standard of living. America is still a free nation and over taxed over burdened people will either fit or leave, sooner or later the money pit will dry up.
As it stands, the US is on the tipping point of going down the road to Communism, one where the government will take control of just about everything and dictate who gets what and when.
This is happening in a lot of places today and the people of these countries are not happy. You might note that all of the pro commits over here are not from communist countries. So, all of this can be educated into the minds of people. It would not be difficult to counter the pro commie agenda with an equally negative one. In fact it could be quite easy if we become creative.
Socialism / Communism needs one thing above anything else and that is money and lots of it. We are trillions in debt and taxes are set to go through the roof. What if they were not paid.
I do not believe for a moment that this fine country will ever fall into communism, in fact it could be that we fall off the fiscal cliff sooner than later and the hand outs will stop pretty darn quick and then there will be a lot of very angry people, with empty hands. Could get pretty lively for a while.
Many people will always chose the path of least resistance, Santa is running on borrowed time.