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by petschge 2629 days ago
You are not, you just have constant propaganda to that effect and you believe it because most of you never leave your country. And that is not just me personal opinion. Going over a (incomplete) sample of freedom indices listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices we have:

Rank 6 on the Economic Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone...

Rank 17 on the Human Freedom index https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-fr...

Rank 45 on the Press Freedom Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

Rank 10 on the World Index of Moral Freedom http://www.fundalib.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/World-Ind...

Rank 53 in the Freedom of the World index https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2018-table-cou...

Rank 12 in the Index of Economic Freedom https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking/

That is not a bad score overall, but is a far cry from an unchallenged "we are the most free".

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what's more important, freedom or perception of freedom?
Not saying “US NUMBAH ONE” but those indexes are just biased to whatever the index creators prefer. I could make one that heavily indexes gun rights, lack of hate speech laws, gross income per capita, or even military strength and suddenly we’re number one if not close to it. It would be just as valid a ranking. In other words those lists are largely rubbish. Never mind they rarely break things down by demographics, preferring to look the other way.
The problem with what you choose and how you weigh it is exactly why I listed more than one index. And btw: I did not skip over any index because it lists the US as number one, I only skipped indices that require registration to get the PDF and such. Literally NONE of the indices I found has the US as number one.