Donald Trump may be the last president to hold the line in preventing socialistic progressivism from overtaking capitalist conservatism.

If Trump fails, the days of owning your own home, a new car and saving enough money to retire and raise a family will end.

Instead of amassing your wealth to pay your way through life, it will be the government that will pay your way. Mass transportation, health care and education will be completely paid for by the government.

The government will regulate the supply and demand of food production and distribution, energy consumption and income opportunities.

Polls indicate a large portion of Americans favor such a system.

Why not? Life is easy when someone else is paying for it.

Convince Americans who elected Donald Trump that living without government assistance is too hard, and then America will join the ranks of global socialism.

To be, or not to be an authoritarian nation, that is the question.

George Pikoulas, Butler