When did we stop fighting communism

I grew up during the cold war. We were taught in school communism was bad. Cuba, China and USSR were (and are may be appropriate in at least one instance) repressive countries ran by dictators. Poverty was mainstay, and Tiananmen Square was a tradgedy.
As I read the news, and hear the rhetoric; as I am confronted by political leaders and people of influence speaking to our youth about the greatness of these past ideologies (Anita Dunn for one, and I have heard that a recent graduate speech by a legislator to the University of Washington held Cuba up as a model for the students to follow); as I remember the celebration surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall, I wonder - where did our passion for democracy go?
It's a peaceful revolution covered in candy and promises that is creeping up on us to turn the Greatest Nation of our modern times, into something our grandfathers would never believe.
You can decide for yourself. It's a free country. Celebrate that. Breathe it. Close your eyes, and imagine what it would be look if it were free no more.
Only don't keep them closed too long, or you never know what you'll see when you open them.