As a matter of fact, if you feel afraid to tell what do you think, because you may loose your job, Welcome, that is the same feeling like the East Europeans had before the fall of Communism.
Yep. Late stage Communism didn’t rely so much on Stalinist brutality, but more on humiliation. If you were a dissident, they didn’t bother to Gulag you, but they would fire you from your nice professional job as an engineer or a doctor and make you clean toilets as a janitor. American society has replicated this use of ritual humiliation and is using it extensively.