By the time we leave public school we've heard the "freedom" spiel thousands of times. We hear it from the news, every time we turn it on. Some people listen to the news primarily so they can hear the repetition of the comfortable old litany. A relatively recent innovation is talking about foreigners who "hate us for our freedom", rather than e.g. for our bombs falling on their homes.
It takes a lot of work to ignore reality so thoroughly.
It takes a lot of work to ignore reality so thoroughly.