Some of the most significant consequences of what you guys are afraid have already taken place. e.g. the National Security State made most americans afraid, paranoid and uneducated, then found out specifically what were your most tribal fears and tricked you into voting for dumbass presidents who will “fix” them.
americans have been brainwashed by corporate propaganda for almost a century. In other countries the US was much more straightforward and just wiped out opposition with violence but at home and in places where local elites have been “pacified” it’s more practical to employ “hybrid wars”. Propaganda, media takeover, divide and control.
If we agree that one of the things that are the most important for most people is their money and consider that in the last ~40 years they have willingly allowed most of their money to be redistributed to the very guys that are already the most rich and powerful in the first place, then what is it that will be done by communists in the future that is worse than that?