I’ve lived and worked long-term in two outright communist countries, and also in one with Marxists in the congress and provincial legislatures, with Marxist land reform and other laws (along with ridiculous “offending feelings” laws).
Where do I now look over my shoulder the most? Right here in the USA, wondering when I might be nabbed for some environmental, weapons or other “violation.”
I am still amazed they can arrest kids today for possession of cigarettes......................
It used to be that one worried about traveling in some god-forsaken place in Africa or Serbo-Croatia where you could be put in prison on a caprice and never see the light of day. Now it is the good ol’ USA that has becoem the place where you worry about getting into a tangle with some power drunk statist polizei. Only it is worse because you don’t have the State Department backed by the US military trying to get you out. Instead you have the full power of the state trying to keep you in.