It's proceeding slowly, one step at a time. To the point where even our elections and the voting booth are being undermined, destabilized and subverted. In my honest opinion, most all in the high echelons of power can no longer be trusted.
Too much corruption, fraud, special interest etc, as the government continues to grow and become all encompassing to the point where it controls every part of our lives and businesses. In the 1950s and 1960s and before, actions such as these and other attacks on our freedoms and sovereignty would have been unheard of and never tolerated.
Ask yourself, what has changed?
Were dying of a thousand cuts.