.... We barely escaped communism ...
Totally missing the point and ignoring history.
Usually people make the mistake of underestimating the importance of economic systems, because there is almost nothing more important. Almost nothing. But something still.
'Communism' was an economic system, very important in that, but the Soviet Union was simply copying the U.S. melting pot, changing economics superficially, and hyping the economic side. The U.S. played along because it had a lot of advantages.
The underlying thing, more important than economics, a global trend which you should not ignore, is the tendency of 'core tribes' to annihilate then assimilate weaker tribes.
Before c1500 or so, two tribes fight, both are injured and survive, one gets land other loses land.
Starting c1500 East meets West and everybody keeps playing the same game except some Western European countries which recognize a new plunder.
The new world tribes get conquered in a new way.
The U.S. and Canada start by exterminating as many Natives as possible, old testament style, then 'retraining' the children, boarding schools etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools Then they start a series of hidden projects throughout the new world, under cover of fighting drugs or terror or communism, a project whose only goal is to lower the numbers of indigenous populations as much as possible. That's where we are now.
Nothing to do with communism or liberty or terror. It's a simple ethnic ploy.
Most people don't know China had the largest economy in the world until the British took out their knees with the opium wars.
The British i.e., UK, U.S. Australia Canada etc, believe they have the upper hand through new ploys not visible to the Chinese. The truth is the exact opposite.
Whether you like it or not, no matter where you live on the planet, the game that will influence you most is not any local political issue you see, but the melting pot idiocy being played by old school colonizers. It was 'British colonialism' as one face, 'communism' as another face, put on your helmet or lose your head.