The reality is the total opposite. Wee have a centralized government which controls every aspect of our lives, record high tax rates, in all industries we have seen the forming of mega-corporations that spread the same state progranda like BLM, women in top positions or whatever is the state hype of the day and everywhere small businesses are pushed out.
We live in Soviet communism, while we believe we live in a free market because we can choose our cereal and we believe a guy with a good idea can become a bibillionaire.
Nonsense. There is literally no control over my life in the US as long as I have a valid driver's license, my vehicle is registered, my vehicle is insured, I have no warrants out for my arrest, I abide by our very lax and forgiving laws, I pay my taxes, I attend no J-6 style "protests" or Trump-style "rallies," and I don't run my mouth on controversial subjects in public. Yeah, maybe some people are experiencing deplatforming, demonitization, frozen bank accounts, and unwarranted arrests, but it's because they are out there attention whoring and "asking for it." Unfortunately, we no longer have free speech and the right to assembly in this country, but who cares when America has all these other fringe benefits (relatively stable society, the best currency, the greatest art, and though declining, still the great craftsmanship in automobiles, architecture, and roads, etc.).
If you live a simple life in America, keep your head low, and don't pay attention to any media and the "mainstream" then you are living in the freest country in human history where the electricity always flows and every time you punch your pin number into an ATM the almighty dollar comes pouring out. If your frame is one of dark cloud communism and "end times" then this is what you will experience. However, facts on the ground state nothing but prosperity with some unfortunate by-products (covid lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, stolen elections, illegal immigration, masculine women, trannies, unfettered porn access, etc.).
I have a small business and for the first time in my life I am succeeding. Don't get me wrong, it ain't easy, and I have spent years trying to succeed, but if things are so bad then why I am I finally succeeding now? Small businesses in America fail because they fail to be relevant and meet demands, not because of government overreach. If you have a good business that the people want then no amount of government redtape or regulations can stop you. "If you build it they will come." This doesn't mean that there are not evil big-government-rigged JQ forces that need to be dealt with, it just means that we must persevere in spite of this fact.