RE: Splitting the Political Spectrum into Social and Economic

You described freedom from a very American perspective. You have it as a right to do something which means that the more powerful you are, either through ownership or money the more "freedom" you have to abuse power.

Many other nations/peoples regard freedom as something different. Freedom from the abuse of the powerful and freedom from debt. We are all born into a world that is owned by someone. If we are lucky we are born into wealth which means that our parents can provide for us without us having to acquire more debt. If we are born poor that means that we are born into debt and at some point will have to work to get out of it and put a roof over our heads. ie. the very concept of land ownership puts the poorest in debt slavery, the antithesis of freedom.
So is freedom the right of the individual, the state or the corporation to do things to say things and do things to others or the freedom from having shit thrown at you every day by the powerful? It's a perspective thing and more accurately a cultural programming thing. However, consider that any nation that has to remind you every single day of a particular national vanity then it should be viewed as propaganda that is used to distract you or misdirect you.