[SiVal]

No one is going to fucking make the US into some 1984 clone because that's in no one's incentive.

Many countries---China, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, North Korea---were increasingly influenced by fervent advocates of utopian Big Government social engineering programs and ended up with "1984 clone" governments as a result. The evil government of "1984" was modeled after real life. Those who brought these governments to power lived by the theory that further social progress required a significant expansion of central government control. Their preferred form of government was Big Government domination of people's lives as long as the domination favored them and their preferred political identity groups.

The US has plenty of such people in positions of influence, and the notion that it is so ridiculous to be concerned about ending up where others have gone before is unsupported by history.