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.