I hate to be a spoiler, but the March toward totalitarianism isn't currently a Left, or a Right thing. It's both. Our country is a turnkey dictatorship just waiting for someone with the strength of will to seize power. Much of the politico-entertainment the masses engage in is little more than the aristocracy of our country drawing battle lines, clambering for power. There are those on the Left who have one vision, and those on the Right who have another. And it is these two sides respectively who've been engaged in a cold war for some time now. And when a strong, willfull leader from either side ascends to power this fanciful notion of a government "of the people, for the people, and by the people" will be euthanized