Good point, my phrasing was poor. What I meant to say is that the government rhetoric about freedom and American principles is convincing because it is based o

Good point, my phrasing was poor. What I meant to say is that the government rhetoric about freedom and American principles is convincing because it is based on actual enlightened thought which makes it all the easier for evil men and well-meaning busybodies and bureaucrats to utterly subvert these principles until they are nothing more than the empty political slogans and propaganda used by totalitarian regimes everywhere.