Actually I understand that all such ‘freedoms’ as we have are permissive. The laws are on the books, right now, to shut down each and everyone of our freedoms the instant the uniparty feels threatened.
You are deluding yourself that we still are what we once were.
Sentimentality and false prophecy and a state religion will NOT alter the course we are on.
This nation is a pump of decadence, violence and globalist servitude.
Until the filth is scoured out HERE, we are better off raising a plague flag over the dominant culture and most especially Versailles on the Potomac.
I do not share your guilt-ridden approach of surrender to the enemy. Obama has definitely made a beachhead of guilt and angst in this country and sadly, many Americans are steeped in the “we’re so bad” mentality. As someone else pointed out, that was exactly the same approach the old USSR was trying to invoke. But Reagan didn’t buy it and neither do I. Our straightening out the issues that face us domestically does not preclude our standing up to the likes of aggressors like Putin.