America was founded on a perversion of the word "freedom." More often than not, "freedom" meant "freedom from without, freedom from constraints." Moreover, it was a perversion of freedom with classist oppression at its core: the freedom is for the ruling class, and when they wrote their pretty little Constitution, they wrote it with only themselves in mind.
The greatest trick is that America has painted itself as a proponent of freedom when it was only ever about the freedom of the abuser to abuse.
