Dear Child, you are the furthest possible creature from an "optimist" in recorded history. ...And yes, I have more (I can do this because unlike you, my *mind* isn't enslaved by pessimism and doubt).
The military draft, forced conscription, is gone. No longer are unwilling boys called up into combat service. That's a positive step for freedom. It's also life and death, and it *is* a big deal that it is no longer active. "Dear child", the draft is not "gone", it is merely waiting in the wings for the next major war.
One form of abortion, Partial Birth, has now been banned (that's a major, life and death matter of infringing upon the rights of the innocent).
What has been bureaucratically 'banned' can be unbanned. Ask Hillary.
Income taxes are now lower. The estate tax is dead. No longer must families sell their father's farm to pay an estate tax bill.
What has been bureaucratically --
National union shop laws have been repealed. No longer are workers in most states subject to tyranical "union shop" membership. Union members have the right to be refunded whatever portion of their union dues were used for political purposes with which they disagree (thanks to President Bush's reversal of President Clinton's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Beck decision, an intriguing case where once again the liberal news media refused to blast Clinton's intransigence).
What has been bureaucratically -- yada yada.
We've repealed, nationally, Gun Controls Against Active, Retired, and Off-Duty Law Enforcement Personnel Carrying Weapons Into Local and State Prohibited Zones (7/28/2004)
We have acknowledged, "nationally", that Fed & State legislators have assumed the power to infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights. -- There should be no "prohibited zones" to our RKBA's.
We've killed the freedom-robbing Kyoto Global Warming nonsense, as well as withdrawn from the uber-Left-wing International Criminal (and gained exemptions from it in numerous foreign jurisdictional areas).
Yada yada, what has been bureaucratically -- yada yada.
We've passed the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act (less romantically known as H.R. 5382) which ultimately allows average Americans to hitch a ride on a civilian space craft at their own risk.
The federal ban on such citizen travel was repealed by HR 5382 in 2004. The President signed that bill into law two days before Christmas.
The federal "ban" had no Constitutional basis to begin with.
We can now use the Internet for profit. We can now own as much gold as we can afford. We can legally consume/own alcohol again. Forced food and gasoline rationing is gone. Wage and price controls have been repealed. Segregation is gone. Jim Crow anti-voting laws are gone. Women can vote. We can travel through "prohibited zones" with weapons legally stored in our car trunks without being subject to state, county, or local tyranny. We can have flash hiders, 40 round clips, and folding stocks on our new assault rifles again. Commercial pilots can fly armed again. Life is good. Enjoy your freedoms. I do.
Your points have been well refuted by many here. Repeating them does not validate your concept. We continue our fight for freedom in America, and our governments are not here to help.
"Your points have been well refuted by many here." 
Rubbish. Claiming repeatedly that infringements on our individual freedoms weren't legal isn't refuting the fact that so many such laws and restrictions have been repealed directly.
We are more free today than in the past. I've documented it; you've waved your hands wildly in the air attempting to deny such obvious things (as if the military draft was still taking young men against their will, or as if Blacks were still being prevented from registering to vote by Jim Crow laws, or as if women were still denied the vote, or as if War Rationing was still in place, or as if gold ownership was still forbidden, or as if alcohol ownership/consumption was still banned, etc.).
Your mind is enslaved. You see only tyranny in the land of the free. Nothing, no fact, no logic, no debate will set you free so long as you wear such intellectual blinders.
You have enslaved yourself. No change in laws will free you from that prison.