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In reply to the discussion: Alan Grayson says, "This is not about President Obama. This is not about Snowden. [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)You divide the world into two sides, your "pure good guy" side and the "evil bad guy side" (with a "huuuurrrrr, derp derp derp" for good measure). Most laughably you prefer the good guy slave-owning Jefferson vs those terrible Adams and Hamilton non-slave owning puritans, and pretend you are in a "battle for the soul of the Democratic party".
In truth though, you're just the mirror image of a teabagger, preaching to the choir while pretending you have moral agency in your terribly terribly uncomplicated world.
This is indeed about our conception as to how we want to live as a free people. Most Americans want to live free from the fear of people who will try to murder them for their political views (a.k.a. terrorists), and do not mind at all paying law enforcement to track these people down, including giving them limited authority to look at the outside envelopes of mail, and the outside "metadata" of email, when properly supervised by the courts. Others want our government to have no such ability, but fail to explain how the NSA's power over keeping a database of private details of your life is any different than that of the IRS, which maintains millions of private records on citizens used to support our tax system. That latter issue is no problem for Libertarians, since they'd get rid of the IRS (and the U.S. government and tax code), but it presents a terrible problem for actual Democrats.
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