I have the same premonition. I was in Walmart looking at the shelves of merchandise, and thinking that the government was going to make sure that those shelves receive less and less stock as time goes by.
I'm reading Whittaker Chambers' "Witness." It is an incredible book, but as I read, I am impressed with the dread I feel as I see the things he described in the early Fifties actually coming to pass today, as we write.
Witness is an amazing book. It’s beautifully written and it really gives you a look at mindsets and environments that, oddly enough, have not changed much in 50 years...except that now, they’re in charge. But when you see how widespread were the tentacles, and how corrupted were the enforcement agencies, even at that time, you can understand how we got to where we are now.