It’s not a long-form bit of literature, but here’s a look into the future after the US adopts both the Green New Deal and Social Credit:
Life in the Green New Deal ‘Paradise’? Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
Something I’ve noticed a *lot* of over the years: a bunch of the people who push for “progressive” policies to remake the US under central control have no idea about the *scale* of the United States. A lot of this seems to be because these people seem to live within relatively small geographic confines. They tout the wonders of electric cars that get, at best, maybe sixty miles range and then need to spend eight hours recharging; sixty miles is less far than to the nearest decent book store for me. When I travel to visit family, I put one thousand two hundred miles onto my car in *two* *days*, then, a short time later, turn around and travel the same distance home. (Having flown that route last year for the first time in some years, I’ve little desire to fly it again… at least until I can fly it in something other than steerage class.)
Some years ago I traveled for a contract job… a drive of something like 2,200 miles each way. Back when I used to go on vacation, it would consist of picking a somewhat random direction and going thataway until I ran into something interesting, a week or two later looping around back home having put 4 to 6 thousand miles on the car. That’s freedom.
But the people who would make themselves my feudal lords would have me believe that being trapped within just a few dozen miles of my home, with *occasional* long distance travel by uncomfortable train (note: the distance from my house to the nearest Amtrak depot is longer then the range of most electric cars; I’m not sure if such a car could get me to the nearest Greyhound Bus depot), is sufficient. I’m not sure if they understand that their end goals would leave tens of millions of fellow Americans essentially permanently cut off from society… or, perhaps more likely, they would simply enforce roundups and forced migrations to densely packed urban dystopias, leaving the vast center of the country largely unpopulated. I have no doubt that this would suit their leader class, who like the idea of vast unpopulated “preserves” that only they can visit, treating, say, Iowa as their own personal country estates.