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Originally Posted by Not Insane

Interesting. The "religious zealots" created the greatest, most powerful and (at least until recently) freest land of opportunity to ever exist. The "criminals" created a modern East Germany during the pandemic.

America is not even close to being the freest land in the world. Moreover, our freedom scores fell precipitously under Trump.

The US has fallen to a new low in a global ranking of political rights and civil liberties, a drop fueled by unequal treatment of minority groups, damaging influence of money in politics, and increased polarization, according to a new report by Freedom House, a democracy watchdog group.

The US earned 83 out of 100 possible points this year in Freedom House’s annual rankings of freedoms around the world, an 11-point drop from its ranking of 94 a decade ago. The US’s new ranking places it on par with countries like Panama, Romania and Croatia and behind countries such as Argentina and Mongolia. It lagged far behind countries like the United Kingdom (93), Chile (93), Costa Rica (91) and Slovakia (90).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-house-new-low