Yeah I was just gonna say that, how exactly is the US a free nation when it's run by the free market (and it has been ever since Regan). You're not free, you're just run by a system you can't see, the power of numbers that the markets use to organise and predict consumer spending and investment was used by the neo-conservatives since Regan was in power and they've been using it in every administration since, bit because they want to control the world but because they wanted to free the world from bureaucracy by instilling what they saw as the indisputable logic of numbers.
This is why we see things like targets for waiting lists in hospitals given exact figures, targets for everything from arrest figures by police to the level of international conflicts in the world (which was agreed by the UN to be reduced by 6% by 2030. All of these targets have taken over the running of government from the politicians who actually have very little power now as everyone is motivated by hitting these targets, including those who you say are trying to destroy the system they created.
It is a kind of freedom I suppose, you have targets to hit but you're not told how you need to hit them, and otherwise you're free to do in your own time what you wish, but that's true in nearly all systems of governance. Still it's a peculiar kind of freedom, where you're only motivated by serving your own self interest, so long as you hit your targets everyone else be damned.
Still, think of the alternative. Control by governments, politicians, who believe they know what is best for us. But that's the choice, you're either told what to do and how to do it but are free to participate to any level you wish, or you are told exactly how much to do and given the freedom to do it how you wish, but are severely punished if you should fail, pushing a self interest on you to achieve no matter the cost.
If you want a more vivid image of what this really means, go back to the Vietnam war when this method was first being tested. GI's were given the "body count", to kill a set number of VC in a specific time but were given no framework on how to achieve this, threatened with disciplinary action if they failed most simply made up their tallies or even shot civilians just to hit their quota. The "Body Count" was created by a man called Alain Enthoven. He also later brought this to the medical establishments of the US and UK.
There have been a lot of different methods tried and tested to bring about spontaneous freedom to different parts of the world and so far all of them have been twisted and corrupted not by people, but by the system itself. Always seeking to improve it's maximum advantage but by doing so engaging questionable methods of control.
And if you think this is all an elaborate scheme to see the US as the all powerful force controlling the world, then just look at the man who invented the system. John Forbes Nash, a paranoid Schizophrenic who believed that he was part of a secret organisation who could stop a soviet invasion and that those around him who wore red ties were communist spies.