freedom in the usa is no longer rooted in philosophy. We have today only those freedoms that have not yet been usurped by mob rule.

Where did this stuff come from? The things it points out are true, but praying isn't going to change it. They couldn't find a price high enough to buy our freedom from us, so they talked us into giving it away via guilt. "Lord, what fools these mortals be"..Puck in "A Midsummer's dream", by Willie Shakespeare.

It isn't just that so many laws & regulations have been passed that limit and control the people, it is that they accept it. While the constitution was replaced by the Act of 1871, the private Federal Reserve Bank owns all currency in circulation and demands interest paid on it which indebts and enslaves all who use it. The use of real money is forbidden limiting trade to what is allowed by the government instead of allowing free choice.
All that would need to be done if enough would do it is quit the system and point out that it is a fraud and no one is rightfully subject to fraud. However almost all on both sides of the political aisle are maneuvering to get the political right (the right to use violence to make others behave) to benefit themselves and when they cannot accomplish that they are still willing to go along and be robbed until they can have the opportunity to rise in power against those they hate.
I do not think there is an opportunity to walk this back to what it was. It is lost and micro control of the lives of people is coming in the form macro programming to watch people and issue social credits for those who are compliant to encourage the behavior of slaves.

No its not

I agree with most of videos premise, things are happening today in Congress where some Dimms and Repubs want to legislate protection for the Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired due to his going off his designated investigation. The Deep State, Dimms and Repubs want to overthrow a duly elected President. There will be a situation that will either going the route of Atlas Shrugged or a true armed Revolution. Or, Revolution and Secession despite the Constitution.

Even those of us, old and ugly, being taught some truth, still we're taught, shown nor learned that to have a "Federal Republic", to have freedom, one Must actively "Keep it".

An opportunity to talk to someone from the past! I’ll save my most important msg for the end.

Revolutionary Soldier: Is American still the home of the free?

You bet it is! In fact, freedom has been expanded. I see from your ghost's words you lived long enough to see the Constitution, not the Articles, I mean the one that starts with "We the People..." passed.

I see you noticed the Bible tracts are not part of public education. I can understand your misunderstanding in thinking they must have established some other religion and people's "values can't be taught." Actually very shortly after adopting that Constitution I mentioned, I they added a protection against establishing any religion. So everyone can be free to teach their children as they wish.

In a series of historical turns, a big chunk of North America, all the way to the Pacific, becomes part of the US. Amazingly, the Constitution works. Countries all around the world model their Constitution on the US's. What you did inspires France, but their revolution goes much worse for them. (Just set aside your dislike for Age of Reason and ask Paine when he gets back from France.) Eventually, monarchs become figureheads and most of the world at least tries to be a republic similar to what the Constitution created. So you didn't just free this little corner of the new world, you showed humankind (you’d say “mankind”) that ideas of liberal democracy are not just philosophers' musing but actually work in practice.

In 70 years Benjamin Franklin's lightning experiments will be harnessed to send charge through a cable under the ocean. Imagine finding out some big news, like the king dying (sorry, such as the king dying; like will sound right in 200 years), but you find out not weeks later but rather the same day! It sounds crazy. What's crazier is soon they start sending signals through the “ether”, from one end of a theater to another with no wire and key or anything like that. An Italian inventor/businessman tries dumping more and more power into larger pieces of wire until he actually sends a signal from Nova Scotia to Cornwall. Soon you can send pamphlets over these signals, and everyone can be little Thomas Paine pamphleteers, but the pamphlets go all over the world, and everyone has machines to find just the ones they want to read. We still accuse the pamphleteers of being drunkards when we don't like what they have to say. That didn’t change.

Along the way, equal rights are extended to everyone, and for us that includes women, negros, and everyone. The average citizen, even a woman with dark skin, can go follow her dreams, go west as it were, and study any try any job and make timepieces, mechanized-horse-like devices, printing press devices, anything.

I see you notice we don't trade with silver and gold anymore. Imagine 1.5 billion ounces of gold, yes 50,000 tons of it. You think there's not that much value in all the world? Well there will be that much value produced each year in the United States. We don't have 50,000 tons of gold, so we find other media of exchange. It's a very good problem to have!

I see you noticed the I.R.S. Yeah, we hand almost half our money to the government. You guys didn't even know if this experiment would work. People made of fun of you. Even in the Colonies, over half the people saw the Declaration of Independence as a political ploy. So cut us some slack (you know, "forgive us this failing")! Maybe we'll undo it.. We undid slavery, even in the agricultural areas.

I see you noticed we have a global military empire. I'm not proud of that. But if you had Barbary Pirates harassing shipping routes, you'd take no action because it's not in your hemisphere? I'm just sayin...

Revolutionary Soldier: Hemisphere?

Oh... I'm sorry to say Philadelphia is not the 0 degree Prime Meridian we use. It would have to be a more fastidious, arrogant, old-fashioned country. Paris almost got it, but they weren't fastidious enough. I'll let you guess who wins that contest.

Before you go back, I'd like to pass a message to your time regarding Benjamin Franklin's electricity experiments: The glass rod side is has fewer charge carriers, not more. So you’ve got it all backwards. Call the glass rod negative and the charge carrier “fluid” positive. You see, I work on devices that are like a cross between lightning, semaphore flags, time pieces, mechanical horses… okay never mind (oh yeah, never mind means “disregard”). The important thing is the charge carriers flow away from the glass rod.