If you spend any real time exploring the concept of freedom and how to measure it, America is in fact the most free nation in the world.

That doesn't mean America holds a monopoly on freedom, it means America is setting the example that others follow, and will continue to until another nation offers it's citizens quantifiably more freedom than America does. And examining the current geo-political climates, that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

The current government in my state won on a platform of not privatising the main electrical utility.