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Your communists are naive extremists. The world isn't a perfect place, communism is just a naive theory.
Welfare eliminates some people from living in poverty, but not everyone.
Gun rights prevent some tyrannic laws from ever working, but not all of them.
The patriot act simply permits phone tapping, since most people don't have much to hide or can simply communicate in untracable ways, there isn't much incentive to begin shooting politicians.
So far the only people who have been detained without trial are foreigners or people with direct and publicised links to terrorism. If the government started rounding up political opponents you would see collaborating politicans being shot as they leave their front doors in the morning etc..