According to a new Gallop Poll, Americans feel less free on this 4th of July than they did in 2006. According to the Christian Science Monitor, reporting on the poll:

Americans have become significantly “less satisfied with the freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives.”

Seventy-nine percent of US residents are satisfied with their level of freedom, down from 91 percent in 2006according to the Gallup survey, released Tuesday.

That 12-point drop pushes the United States  from among the highest in the world in terms of perceived freedom to 36th place, outside the top quartile of the 120 countries sampled…Only 10 nations experienced as sharp a drop as the US in terms of the satisfaction of citizens with their level of freedom: Egypt, Greece, Italy, Venezuela, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Romania, Yemen, Pakistan, and Spain.