I'm not sure individual freedom is the same thing as civil liberty, and I'm not sure saying "we're not worse than the past," is equivalent to saying "we've achieved full progress and eliminated all inequity." Let's ask the people being told their gender identity is crap and they need to go use the opposite gender's bathrooms. Let's ask the good folks in Frederick, MO. Let's ask the victims of mosque burning and hate crimes. Let's ask folks withering under psychopathic local or state or Federal officials. Let's ask Syrian refugees surprised to learn that the xenophobes here have concluded they're all terrorists and denied them entry. Let's ask everyone racially profiled by crooked cops. Let's ask the US national debt. Let's ask the now-underminded institutions of public science and education. Let's ask folks whose religions were denied recognition by the government. Let's ask innocent people wrongfully convicted of crimes they never committed or the unarmed victims of police homicide.