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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
Canada and Australia are both less free than we are. I hope you were joking...
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Free is a very loose and relative term. Americans love to wave it around as some sort of a golden totem, while in reality the average person in Germany enjoys much more freedom without even thinking about it. In the end, 'freedom' means nothing without happiness and comfort, and Canada and Australia both have a much happier population.
Here is the most recent Democracy Index, the US is 21st (page 5):
https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton....?p_doc_id=1034
Here is the most recent World Press Freedom Index, the US is 46th (page 30):
http://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf