Do we live in a communist country or 3rd world banana republic?
Lately, yes
They way things are running today, freedom for most of us means flying beneath the radar and not presenting any ‘nuisance’, inconvenience, or threat to the overlord government. As long as you remain a little person in anonymity you have nominal ‘freedom’. As soon as you pop your head up and present a challenge to those who really hold the power and who define our ‘freedom’, you will get pounded down.