Living under a communism or socialist regime you quickly learn that standing out is a bad things. Speaking up, making suggestions, and providing input is asked of local leaders but in reality they don't want it because even though it may seem you are suggesting things to improve the greater good you are not. By speaking up you became an individual, with a mind, and now you have been duly noted for your suggestion. You have called out and created work for a local government leader who may act upon your suggestion but always will resent it because it created more more for him.
When people from socialist countries move to America they want to blend in to being American. Their children speak the language, dress American, but they never want them to true Americans who stand out and speak their minds because the fear is imbedded in them from experience even though the threat is gone.
This is where we are heading right now. All the stories of people losing their jobs, ruined reputations, doxxing on line, and the shaming for what they believe in will exist even when it doesn't. It will be passed on to the next generation, almost unconsciously, and we will be less of a nation because of it.
Maybe you're right and this is a long-term play. But the scenes of South American dictatorship you see in DC right now show a government collapsing on itself. I think a descent into chaos is more likely. I'm not quitting my job but trying to make the family self sufficient in the next few years
I'm thinking along those same lines too because the one thing the left and the Deep State understand are the common man. This continually misjudge us and don't realize who we are because they live in echo chambers on the coasts and DC. They believe polls and data but they don't know the truth about regular American people. They don't feel the rage and distrust of the common man and they can use the tools at their disposal to quiet us but you can never quiet our minds and our resiliance to protect our God given rights. I just hope this is not a long game because we may not see the fruits of our labor but the whole concept of stealing an election I can never get passed and the way it was done was so egregious it has to be undone.
Quit being afraid.
Stand up to injustice.
You can do this.