“...and the statists’ only solution is that the State needs to be bigger in order to succeed....”
Sadly, MrB, you are correct...but you forgot the statists’ other time-honored Final Solution...
Eliminate and annihilate any and all who oppose them.
That always follows the sudden realization that “Utopia” doesn’t exist...when a portion of the public wakes up and says “Hey...wait a minute...”
This has been the problem with "Utopians" throughout our history. They have always sought to build their "Utopian Dream" using the blood, and bones of those who believe their dream to be a Dystopian Nightmare. Thus they fail, even as they are beginning, as that wholesale slaughter is usually one of the first, and not one of the final, steps.
Still, those who dream these "Utopias" have never figured out this simple fact, so we are condemmned to repeat it, ad nauseum, et ad infinitum, et ad absurdum...
the infowarrior