Absolutely chilling.
I heard a radio interview once with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the brilliant intellectual and Christian who was imprisoned himself in the Soviet gulag system. He wrote several books about his horrific experiences, the most famous was The Gulag Archipelago.
One of the most amazing (and frightening) things he said was that the West was making the same mistake the Soviet Union had made - it had forgotten God, and thereby unleashed on itself untold Evil.
He remarked that under the Soviet system, you were defenseless against being charged with any "Thoughtcrime" that the authorities wanted to charge you with.
He said that if you admitted a faith in God, that in of and by itself was mocked and then charged against you as "insanity." To believe in an unseen, almighty, all knowing God was insane. You were mad. The psychiatrists and torturers would argue this to you, ridicule you, surround you, and wear down your very will and being.
In American today, we are not as far off from this nightmare as think. I predict that very soon, the "Thoughtcrime" of disagreeing with homosexuality will itself be punished. Outlandish? Not in the least. All it would take would be a high profile crime against homosexuals, and we would see the same type of hysteria as we have seen with the media and political rant against citizens and firearms.
I also think that Christians and Jews in America are in for terrible persecution in the future. The "mental health" industry can declare them "unstable" and a "threat" in the same breath. People think it can't happen here, but they are wrong.