The problem is that little by little these freedoms are being chipped away so it requires constant fighting and pushing back in an extreme fashion to hopefully

The problem is that little by little these freedoms are being chipped away so it requires constant fighting and pushing back in an extreme fashion to hopefully slow it down. For example: You want to protest Israel? Great but now in 35 states you cannot accept any government jobs. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in... Another example: NSA is slurping up every last detail of Americans complete being. That we know thanks to snowden. If we keep going down this slope, what is to prevent them from using this data on you? Already we saw examples of them targeting Trump cabinet officials. If a real hard left candidate makes it anywhere close to the white house, you can be sure any skeletons will come out thanks to this data trove. And finally an example closer to protesting: How is a country not creeping closer to fascism if they are literally kidnapping protesters and putting them in unmarked vans? [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomXxmJTrLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomXxmJTrLI So yeah I guess you can say that America is a lot more polite about oppressing people. They don't typically pull their citizens into a back alley and shoot them. These days that is less effective than their current strategy. They accomplish the oppression in smarter more tangible ways through the ease of passing restrictive laws in addition to making trouble and asking forgiveness later(this is what happened with the unmarked van story although I don't know how the investigation turned out).