Its not the government that betrays its people, government was put in place by us for us. Unfortunately it was taken over by the elite a long time ago, maybe even before we settled here. The fact is the government is run by a small group of us that is only interested selfish gain. The look at everyone else as slaves on their plantation and work very hard to keep us in a herd mentality.
America is the greatest illusion of freedom that was ever created. People think that they are free because they are able to move around freely in the pen while talking amongst each other about which political part they support, or what war they fought in and which side they took and how it restored there so called freedom. Or maybe we feel free because we can walk from one side of the pen to the other and buy things at an inflated price, while those prices are artificially inflated by a money system that is so complex nobody really sees how that currency is used to funnel wealth from people that might make a difference to people that want to keep their power systems in place and have no interest in changing their views to a more spiritual, ethical and sustainable future.
You talk about wars giving people freedom; they donâ(TM)t do anything but mask whatâ(TM)s really going on behind the scenes. A concentrated effort to make people more susceptible to control so that the power elite can keep riding the gravy train at the expense of their own peopleâ(TM)s well being.
Your second paragraph makes more sense than the first one, ill give you that. But if you think we live in a country of freedom then you haven't been doing enough home work on how this country really operates.
People in power use both sides of an issue to keep people from making tough choices about their own free will. It happened in our civil war when banks took control over our currency, it happened during WWI WWII and its happening right now.