Latest Survey Shows People Across The Political Spectrum Are Skeptical Of Government Surveillance
from the and-yet-it's-still-there dept
It would appear that the government's attempts to convince the public that giving up their privacy for the good of national security isn't going so well. The latest numbers from the Pew Research Center show pretty broad consensus that it's not right to diminish privacy rights in order to fight terrorism, and this was true across the political spectrum.The partisan nature of views on surveillance has been a bit depressing -- because you see the very same people who hated the NSA's warrantless wiretapping under George W. Bush suddenly change their tune under Barack Obama -- and vice versa (I even had a bizarre Twitter debate with someone who dismissed all facts by saying "Well, I trust Eric Holder," which seemed like the ultimate in pure partisan faith). But it's good to see that plenty of people are ignoring the partisan pull (and whatever attempts there are by the NSA's defenders to "educate" the public) and are flat out recognizing how problematic these programs are.
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That spectrum is completely wrong when asking a question that has more to do with where on the anarchist/totalitarian spectrum a person is. The question is in effect a question of how much control a government should exercise over the life of its citizen. The conclusion I draw from these results is that the government is more totalitarian than the people like.
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anarchist/totalitarian spectrum
>>that has more to do with where on the anarchist/totalitarian
>>spectrum a person is.
Wow! That's the most insightful thing I've read in a while. The main difference between far right and far left is the totalitarians that they want in charge!
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Given these numbers
Who shuffled that deck?
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Self-identified?
I have no clue what some of those labels mean (having never heard of them before) and if there weren't nicely colored dots next to them to indicate what political bent they indicate, I wouldn't have known. Asking "Do you consider yourself a 'Young Outsider'?" would have left me stumped as to who that was supposed to be.
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Made me laugh but then I thought about it. In the hands of women, you know, I really might say yes. That might be easier and more foolproof than pretending to have a headache & take pills.
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http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/typology-comparison/types/solid-liberals/
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"Well, I trust Eric Holder"
"He must be finished wiping his ass with the Constitution since he cannot still be full of it"? You wish.
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That guy must've been just a troll or some undercover agent. Nobody can be that stupid.
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polls... You mean like G... who give ya money?
Psychiatry is false science, at same time political weapon, and being used by obamacare/FRAUD/COUP to target firearms owners
marblecakealsothegame
PERIOD.
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And when has faith and family ever been attached to the left?
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More evil is perpetrated by those in authority than those under it.
There isn't a legit employee in the entire federal cesspool, it is just a huge black hole of suck.
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But Why...
Errrr... I can agree readily enough with the first half, but why on earth would you want to rebuild it??
Its an institution designed to fail. As long as it keeps failing, it remains intact and healthy. Its only real job is to keep Americans poor enough that they will keep on working for the billionaires for subsistence level pay.
Just hire a few dozen college kids and give them some good computers and pay them each 500 bux a week, and I'm certain they can do a far greater job than any gang of millionaire fascists could ever do. Offer them large bonus paychecks at the end of their term if they accomplish good things.
Hell, two 10 year olds and a Win 8 laptop would do a better job than the last 10 (s)elected administrations have done.
Let the millionaires back in and you'll just get a brand new cesspool of suck in a couple weeks. I mean hell, if you think that those billionaires gathered that much money together by caring about the world and its people, then you deserve what you get.
Remember, George Dubya Bush proved to the American People that the USA runs just fine for nearly a decade with no federal government at all. In fact he proved that the USA runs just fine even when there's a gang of thieves and cut throats sitting in the offal orifice doing their level best to steal the treasuries of three countries at once.
And the money saved, not having to pay billionaires to party hardy and snort coke with 1000 dollar an hour hookers on multi-million dollar yachts 4 days a week, could end poverty in the US over night. Although I suppose the 1000 dollar a night hookers might honestly complain about the lack of liquid cash and sugar-daddy love.
If a machine does not work, trash it and build a machine that works. The Federal Government is obsolete and useless and costs Americans both a fortune in upkeep and their reputation world wide.
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