[bjpbakker]

Most items from your list sound a whole lot like the path the US is on. I don't believe these things are related to communism or capitalism, but more so to a few people who want to stay powerful and in control.

(edit: spelling)

[0xcde4c3db]

This touches on a major point of Nineteen Eighty-Four that many people seem to forget, despite the presence of a very striking monologue about it. I mean, it doesn't get much more explicit than:

> Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

[myth_drannon]

You are giving too much credit to the elites. The State in itself is a ridiculous creation with full of incompetence at the top. Hence the laws.