Christian Lunacy

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by finnbow

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

Notice in my post I said, "until recently". But I wasn't talking about Trump. Actually I was thinking of stuff as recent as mask and vaccine mandates. And I think we GAINED freedom under Trump, blue state islands notwithstanding. Gun carry laws certainly got destroyed. Freedom to drill for oil improved, for a while, until biden rolled it back to the Obama plan - and prices plus.

Etcetera.

How did trump give us less freedom?