I remember. Our govt spent a lot of money to push technology under the banner of nationalism to stay ahead of the Russians (in order to develop tech powerful enough to enslave us later), engorged our spy networks and surveillance organizations under the pretense that we had to in order to fight Russian interference (to later be turned inward to fight conservatives). And more. They continued the ruse to hone the govt's ability to control the people and someday morph the govt by the people, for the people into a govt for the govt, by the govt. Raw unopposed power.