Two weeks before the US's anniversary, The Associated Press published a poll that captured the depth of American anxiety about the ruling class and life in general in the country. The numbers were grim. More than two-thirds (70%) of Americans no longer consider their country the greatest nation on Earth, while 64% believe American democracy is in danger. And 38% don't believe the United States will survive another 250 years as a single country.

Only about one-third of Americans believe that the "American Dream" still exists.

The lack of confidence stems from the ruling classes' consistent slide into tyranny. People are beginning to feel the immorality of government, even if they can't quite put their finger on it just yet.

The first problems with people's perceptions of the US began with the Millennial generation. This is the generation born between 1981 and 1996. Their parents got rich, bought homes, built savings, and traveled abroad, but they inherited student debt, unaffordable housing, unstable work, and the strange feeling that no matter how hard they run, the finish line keeps moving further away, according to a report by RT. 

Not much remains, including freedom. The very nature of being ruled over by any kind of overlord or a group of them negates the very definition of freedom. At best, Americans are coerced into believing that they have some freedom, when none actually exists. Coercion is not the same as freedom, and all laws are coercive at their core.

Not to mention, the ruling class is filled with elderly politicians who seem determined to change nothing and who often leave public life only when nature finally intervenes. But it's obvious why changes won't be made. Changes by those who have much to gain by committing to the status quo and ruling over others will not be made. No politician, ruler, king, or otherwise will willingly give up power to allow their citizens to be free.

We do not currently live under chattel slavery; however, this is a form of enslavement from which most will never escape.

With time, the hope is that mental slavery will go the way of chattel slavery, and it will be abolished from the planet, not just in the US.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. -Martin Luther King Jr.