It sounds like 'dying in the gulag' is what a lot of people will be doing under this arrangement. It will just be that the gulag is a bit different than they expected.

The ONE bright spot in the USA is that the younger the generation the more progressive it becomes. In the '60s I always thought 'don't trust anyone over thirty' was stupid. Those idiots were giving themselves ten years or less of relevance - if only people remembered. But in the current day USA there is a similar dynamic, with the GenX and younger generations rightly criticizing the Boomer generation for getting theirs and then voting to have the ladder pulled up. But the effects are opposite in tendency
to those in Sweden.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."