>As far as freedoms, for the last 40 years this country has been busily removing freedom of religion (at least for Christian religions - those that the country was founded upon)

Of course, your belief that that's the case is part of why you're unhappy. I'll point out that at the time of its founding, there were others than Christians here and the Constitution was written specifically to ensure that they had full citizenship rights. It's just not true that this was founded as a "Christian nation."

Tamar