Is America's Dance with Utopian Socialism Ending?

If the dance continues, it will take generations for America to pay off its mortgage to utopian socialism and be free again.
Utopianism has seduced mankind before.  It has been, as Thomas Molnar (Hungarian Catholic philosopher, historian, and political theorist, 1921-2010) wrote in "Utopia: The Perennial Heresy," "... far more than a harmless imaginative and intellectual exercise regarding political systems. ... Utopian thinking in our own time...is not an aberration peculiar to the modern mind."

[I]n what circumstances does the utopian imagination best thrive? In generally unsettled conditions, in insecurity and suffering...Utopian thinking is no mere exercise in wish-fulfillment; it is a constitutive element of our mental attitude, and, as such, it possesses its own structure. [snip]
To overcome individual resistance [to utopian perfection, it] will mean force, but the utopian holds that, if the goal is goodness and perfection, then the use of force is justified. It is even justifiable to establish a special government of the elect as repositories of the doctrine of the perfect society; these elect have the supreme right to oblige every individual to shed his selfishness and to don the garments of a candidate for perfection. [snip]
[T]he same paradox characterize all utopian thinkers: they believe in unrestrained human freedom' at the same time, they want so thoroughly to organize freedom that they turn it into slavery. Clearly then, the utopian has certain philosophical presuppositions about the past of the human race, its mature and potentialities.  He uses his assumptions toward constructing an imaginary community and world order. [snip]
Contemporary statolatry ... is the expression of utopian man's confidence that the world is converging toward larger units of total and beneficial power.

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