Trust the government to step in and make a mess of things.
I’m reading a book (third in a series) about a Seal Team during the Obama years, and how government control has ruined the country; a few small pockets of people have settled in Alaska to get away from the government control, and it’s not working well.
I’ve just started this third volume, so I have no clue how it will end. The country (and soon, the world) is being run by the New United Nations. Pretty scary concept. What makes it even scarier is that the author draws on actual recent events. *shudder*
My Dad had a friend from the Navy who wrote parallel-history novels rather like that.