Comment by spikels
12 years ago
Where did you get the idea the "vast majority of citizens support these initiatives"?
From the very start the polls have generally been against mass NSA surveillance except when the wording of the poll was misleading[1]. As more and more information has come out the polls have become more and more clearly against it[2].
Try to keep the facts straight.
Not sure why you refer to winner-take-all and how that concept could make everyone responsible. Keep in mind almost know one knew about this until very recently and we learned more even today.
[1] http://www.policymic.com/articles/53767/nsa-surveillance-sca...
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-ma...
Now try mentioning terrorism as the tradeoff for granting civil liberties and see what people think.
That's how they view it, for better or worse.