Socialism is the answer and is close to communism, but not quite. US Senator Bernie Sanders and new congresswoman AOC claim to be socialist, but not nearly to the extreme as Republicans label them as. They want a fair wage and a fair share of the profits workers help to create.
Because the map in his time was wrong, China was thought to be farther east than it was, the Americas were not on the maps the combines Atlantic and Pacific was thought to be much narrower than they are.
Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went.
Lincoln waited to unveil the proclamation until he could do so on the heels of a Union military success