"For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy just enough freedom to think we are free but not enough to actually allow us to live as a free people.

"In other words, we’re allowed to bask in the illusion of freedom while we’re being stripped of the very rights intended to ensure that we can hold the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution.

"We’re in trouble, folks.

"This is no longer America, land of the free, where the government is of the people, by the people and for the people.

"Rather, this is Amerika, where fascism, totalitarianism and militarism go hand in hand."
 https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_political_matrix_sustains_the_illusion_of_freedom#:~:text=For%20years%20now,hand%20in%20hand.