Forget claims holding no water, how about blatant bigoted statements. "the freedom to be gun toting, slave owning warlords, accountable to no one"
If you want to keep using Somalia as the small-government-advocate's dream, fine, it is asinine, but that's your choice.
Why don't we take a look at America and its laws, its constitution, and its history. Where do you find this freedom to create massive social programs riddled with debt, to restrict what schools one may attend, to make someone's race or genitalia the criteria for a job over their qualifications, to take over a private corporation or dictate what one may be paid, the list is endless, who crowned you king to make these decisions? Is this freedom?
These are simple questions, yet you are unable to answer them, you simply feel that because you are able to elect like-minded people into office that suddenly all restrictions and checks can be thrown out the window, that you become free to take over the lives of those you mean to serve. Your elected officials are not tyrants, they must still abide by our laws and our set precedent and must exercise prudence in making decisions rather than pushing with full force their radical agendas. And this is apparently not clear.
If you think "America is not necessarily the best at anything" then name for me a country where more freedoms are actually guaranteed by law than this country. Many people take their freedom for granted, as many willingly give up their freedoms for perceived security. It is fine to have the debates as to what level of social programs are necessary, or how much control the government should be able to hold over a private corporation, or what speech is not considered protected, debate is what led to this country being founded as it was, I'm sure you understand this. Even the people who wrote our constitution fiercely debated each issue, and those on both sides raised many concerns with the constitution that they ultimately ratified.
I'm sure that when people who hold views differing from yours have been in office you have appreciated the checks and balances that exist in our form of government, yet why when someone is on your side do you feel that all that may simply be tossed aside?