> EDIT: but these are "just" stats, and do not speak to any person's personal position, like Meng's. Oh indeed. There's unbounded ways to weight the different

> EDIT: but these are "just" stats, and do not speak to any person's personal position, like Meng's. Oh indeed. There's unbounded ways to weight the different aspects of freedom that get combined into indices like this. As for the current drop in the US being temporary… well, we can all hope.