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Which is ironic since the US has been becoming increasingly less "free." Like state elections, the ways congressional districts are gerrymandered, and the enormous outsized voice capital has in the functioning of our government and elections: I'm not sure how much we have on other nominally less free countries sometimes.

And according to the heritage foundation the US isn't even in the top 10 most free economies, and that's the sort of thing people who are swayed by that particular jedi mind trick like.