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adjl posted...

Given that those other countries have been "sliding down that slippery slope" for literally centuries and not actually descended by any measurable degree, I think it's okay and you're just being melodramatic.

Technically many of them never started from a position of freedom. They went from a monarchy under which speech was punishable by sentences up to and including death to other forms of government where speech was punishable by sentences coming short of death. There are many countries whose citizens never actually knew freedom so they think various forms oppression are natural or, in extreme cases, necessary. And governments have a vested interest in convincing people they shouldn't have rights, because governments put themselves above the people.

However, in many cases, most of the "slides" are actually very recent.