According to this source the US is as free as brazil, chile, barbados, estonia, hungary, etc. It feels like this is not giving the full pictures. According to

According to this source the US is as free as brazil, chile, barbados, estonia, hungary, etc. It feels like this is not giving the full pictures. According to the report[1] its aggregate score is 89/100 down from 90 with freedom of press and freedom of internet. Same article says in overview: in recent years the country’s democratic institutions have suffered some erosion, as reflected in legislative gridlock, dysfunction in the criminal justice system, and growing disparities in wealth and economic opportunity. Then reporter without borders tells us the US is 41th on freedom of press: US media freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment to the 1787 constitution, has encountered a major obstacle – the government’s war on whistleblowers who leak information about its surveillance activities, spying and foreign operations, especially those linked to counter-terrorism. Furthermore, US journalists are still not protected by a federal “shield law” guaranteeing their right not to reveal their sources and other confidential work-related information. For internet freedom, the US is on the enemies of the internet list since 2014[3]. US ranking on the Human Freedom Index went steadily from 16th in 2008 to 23th in 2014[4]. On the Democracy Index it got demoted from full democracy to flawed democracy in 2016 before trump got elected[5]. In terms of economic freedom the US right after Qatar and Taïwan and right before Romania[6]. I'd like to see how this supposed freedom would hold if the US wasn't one of the worse if not the worst offender in terms of energy and resources consumption and waste. From the rest of the world the US is free to ruin the world for everybody, free to watch tv, get morbidly obese on junk food and to choose between brand A and brand B. [1]: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2017/united-states https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2017/united-st... [2]: https://rsf.org/en/united-states https://rsf.org/en/united-states [3]: http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/#slide2 http://12mars.rsf.org/2014-en/#slide2 [4]: https://framapic.org/8p2WjK12neKn/LlmHYvBl0Nu3.png https://framapic.org/8p2WjK12neKn/LlmHYvBl0Nu3.png [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World