I don't know what to tell you. The people of the United States have continuously ceded power to their government, and the corporations that wield influence over it, while being spoonfed lies about what freedom actually means by government and media.
The right to bear arms supercedes the right to live in safe communities (and as a former infantry man, I can assert that more weapons in the hands of untrained civilians does not make communities more safe).
The right to an health care (abortion) is superceded by so called "religious freedoms".
The right to vote is superceded by politicians who rewrite election laws and electoral districts to choose their constituents.
Freedom to discriminate is beginning to supercede the right to freedom from discrimination.
These problems aren't unique to the United States, and in Canada we have our own issues.
> Private corporations don’t have the power of the state to coerce me to do anything.
* blinks in private law enforcement, the radical expansion of surveillance by private corporations, and lack of accountability of tech companies *
Uh, yeah, that's by design, but on a global basis, the design is breaking. There are more and more exceptionally wealthy individuals and corporations that are wielding power and working in domains that have typically been the purview of states and governments.
We need stronger regulation of corporations globally, and strong treaties that unify global regulation and information sharing of how that regulation occurs, or we will continue to cede freedom and governance to the whims of corporations that will wield significant influence over elected officials. One thing going for unelected government, they generally DGAF about the whims of corporations, and we have seen what some countries are willing to do in order to preserve influence over corporations (I would love to hear an honest, unbiased tell all from Jack Ma for example).
