Everybody learns about communism from passionate writers so everyone wants to emulate them. Organizing is hard work and no one learned from it so they don’t wanna do it.
No, it means you're just using your paranoia to justify your inactivity.
Feds only really go after you if you're a part of the national security apparatus and in proximity to state secrets as you're an employee at-risk of deliberately leaking sensitive information.
For example, only pissed off management and shareholders will be after your ass if you're a part of one of the Chevy automotive plants because you'd probably be there educating and organizing the workforce to seize their rights, whereas if you try the same thing at an Oshkosh plant, the DHS and FBI will be ordering the management to terminate and blacklist your ass because you are too close to sensitive information on American armed forces mechanized armor schematics.