America is only, about, the 23rd freest nation. :o
The only whom are free are ones too ignorant to realize they're not, or those whom are smart enough to think for themselves.
America has been forgeted up a lot by its leadership in the last few decades. The post war boom was used as an example of the "success" of conservative policy, when all that was really happening was less and less control of the market and more freedom for corporations with their own agendas and self interests. Land of the free? Have fun being elected to a nation where the church and state are supposed to be separated when you can't even get elected to major public office as a non Christian. America is exceedingly ignorant, and unfortunately that's just what many of our elected leaders wanted.