Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

152. The "United" States doesn't exist.

What rights have you lost? I'm curious because it seems to me we've been in a civil war since the 80s. The MIC and neoconservatism jumped into think tank mode when the USSR was no more by '91, and through our media giants we turned on each other for want of a clear enemy. Then to see states conspire to undo legislation that would help the country's most at risk population, with backing from the very top sociopaths like the Koch Bros, we took the road downward. We can expect no reprieve from their war on the poor. Snowden and Greenwald (who I suspect is a CATO kinda guy) is playing right into their hands, and we into his, while claiming to be victims.

Government may be worse than bad, yet adversaries like Russia (which feels it got screwed) would love to realign with China to put us in our place. And who's to say we don't deserve to be undone by our own behavior? I still argue that it's the Koch Brothers who are the true enemies of freedom and the American way of life by abusing the capitalist system.

Just try working inside that system and get anything accomplished. I'm depressed, so you know where I'm coming from.