What the hell, DU?

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116. Having to look--really look--at the implications

of the choice between "liberty vs security"-- is too disturbing to some. They really can't wrap their beautiful minds around it.

Your list of arguments and rationalizations that even intelligent people use to avoid confronting the terrible truth is to the point. The vast RW-controlled data-mining apparatus probing every aspect of our lives--collecting, analyzing, filtering, profiling, etc--is just too terrible, too much of a betrayal. Too dangerous to confront those indications of our abject failure as a democratic society. And our obscene abuse of others around the globe.

Do you expect people who still believe the system is functional to want to delve into the apparent crash of the noble ideals our democracy was founded on? These are the Dem-voting or unaffiliates who have some degree of "progressive" in there somewhere.

The rest are professional trolls who think of themselves as doing a key job for their authoritarian masters. They are easier to bear, since we know they're always in opposition. It is more depressing to see people who should know better fall into the traps of hiding the skeletons and body parts.

Really sorts out the profiles around here, doesn't it? This division reflects the country's attitudes IMO.