“So, they will not give up their goal of a statist, socialist utopia.”
Indeed, they never will. That’s why we must make them give it up at the ballot box, every election, forevermore.
David Mamet has a great quote in “The Secret Knowledge.” “The Left cannot be brought either to actually state its intentions [a government run country], nor to honestly evaluate the results of its actions.”
I hope he catches on among his former confederates.
They cannot even say the word "government." They much prefer to misappropriate words with other, more amorphous, meanings - particularly "society" and "public." They also misappropriate the word "liberal" to mean their philosophy, which has nothing to do with liberty.