[Lazamataz]

I have a friend who lives in Russia, and while she agrees America is falling fast, she still says -- at present -- America is much more free than Russia.

She does advise that in a few years, at the rate we are going, America will descend below Russia's level of freedom.

[cunning_fish]

In terms of personal freedoms they were already ahead in late Soviet period. As for political freedoms they are far from perfect and so will be in any near future.