Letter to the editor: Socialism is here now

Creating a social state requires levels of control not immediately realized by many. See if they’re not here!

• Health care — when you control health care, as we are doing, you control the people.

• Poverty — With the evaporation of the middle class, more people are becoming poor. The poor are easily controlled. They won’t fight back as long as you give them everything they need to live for “free.” You just bought their vote, too.

• Debt — Increase the debt to unsustainable levels. This way you are able to increase taxation and as a result, produce more poverty.

• Gun control — Remove people’s ability to defend themselves from government. Hello, police state!

• Welfare — Take complete control of every aspect of people’s lives, including food, housing and income.

• Education — Take control of what people read and listen to. Remove their ability to discern the truth. Fake news. Use AI to keep them guessing as to who said or did what.

• Religion — Remove the belief and trust in God from government and our schools.

• Class warfare — Divide the people, as we’ve become as a nation, into the wealthy and the poor. Hello, vanishing middle class!

Rather than point the finger, as most politicians do, I’ll let you ponder how we’ve descended to levels of control that our forefathers never intended. Baited by “freebies,” the government has groomed us to be parasites; we have failed to realize that nothing is for nothing. What’s certain now is increased taxation is on our doorstep. Future generations will work for nothing but it, as our debt is now unsustainable.

Jim Fontana Sr.

Unity