I would say 1825, when President Andrew Jackson molded us into a French Democracy, then 1861, when the first of several mortal blows struck the Constitution... advancing to the establishment of the IRS and a fiat monetary system that robbed the American middle class of its wealth and property... evolving further to the World Bank and IMF so to deprive us from any chance to regain our own currency... Then the United Nations to gradually usurp our sovereignty... And finally the legalization of abortion, which marked the rejection of the 10th and 14th Amendments, and ushered in a pretense that privacy includes a right of government-sanctioned murder on a genocidal scale.
We lost our Republic long ago. Only now are the majority finally realizing that truth. Our liberties are already infringed and poisoned... It only remains for the Marxists to do their post mortum disection. Enter Barack Obama.
We indeed have lost much of our freedom.
I have a simple, somewhat humorous way of making this point without being too aggressive about it. When I want to encourage someone, I tell then, “Sure, go ahead. After all, it’s a partly free country.”
This slight modification of an old, familiar expression always gets attention, and a look of unaccustomed thoughtfulness will often result.