The nation is edging toward what once would have been thought the impossible: socialism. In times past it would have been entirely possible to toss off bonds that this miserable social system brings with it, but I expect that technology has progressed to the point that the surveillance state will now have the means to identify and punish anyone that leaves the straight and narrow. A look at what is currently going on in China and how they are using technology to control their masses is a harbinger of things to come in America should the socialists succeed in gaining control. An ugly picture is forming.