Re:There is a key difference (Score 1)

Yes. Yes. I have read several books by Ayn Rand - including We The People - so I know that she was extremely anti-communist. I was trying to come up with a patently ridiculous claim as an example of what might happen in a truly totalitarian regime... I guess I was too subtle for you. Oh well. In any case, I think my analogy was appropriate. Whatever. There will be cameras in most neighborhoods within a few years. So you'll find out if you live in an "atmosphere of paranoia and mutual suspicion". I think not - so long as the police aren't dragging you communist sympathisers away in the night ;)