Excellent analysis, and I agree that we have been lulled into believing we possess freedoms. Freedoms are always a fragile idea for which no perfect structure exists to ensure that it lasts forever. It takes massive effort to maintain freedoms, and they will constantly be under attack, both externally, as well as, internally.
Thanks for the kind words. I like to paraphrase Andrew Breitbart when he said that politics is downstream from culture. Fix the culture, or separate from it and create a different one, and the politics will fix itself.