I know several people that lived under communist rule, and every one of them see us slipping into it, day by day, and they are mortified!
Yes, those people understand the meaning of the powerful sentence from The Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I can see why the statist, left wing dictatorial types hate this sentence. Saying out in public something like this, back then, I would have ended up in prison accused of treason, or contra revolutionary activity.