Many along the road have did their best to point out how we would eventually slid into socialism and then become a third world nation, with much of our constitutional rights put on the shelf, and of course no industrial base to create new wealth and put food on the plate for our families.
It's true. But it is human nature for most people (not all, but most) NOT to recognize or respond to a problem trend until it is a crisis. This tendency has even been studied scientifically. So we have to hope now that enough people will recognize a crisis when they see one. There's no more time to stick heads in the sand.