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In reply to the discussion: What Democrats Should Learn from their Loss in Florida -Charles P. Pierce [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Unless the Dem leadership comes out strong in support of 4th Amendment protections, low voter turnout is going to be even worse come November.
The NSA intrusions and a stance to protect personal information from corporate snooping is the strongest way to get the vote out. A strong statement that a citizen's personal information is absolutely protected under the Fourth Amendment and a party condemnation of NSA surveillance would reassure a great many of us who vote.
The pandering of folks like Feinstein and Obama regarding the NSA violations on personal privacy will make it easy to portray the Dems as the flipside of the McCarthy and a threat to those people who value their rights, such as the right to vote.
If I knew that a Democratic candidate was going to protect me, my family and my neighbors from government and corporate snooping, I'd truck people to the polls all day long. With the current slew of lukewarm defenders of the 4th Amendment or downright Big Brother lovers, I could care less. I'll write in a name if I must.
This one issue, I believe, is the Democrat's Achilles' Heel, and they ignore it at the risk of our republic.