I'm a little puzzled here. Remember the Outrageous! Outrageous!

[ConservativeDemocrat]

53. It has to do with the whole "Police State" argument

Pushed by nadinbrzezinski, among others. The term Police State was brought into the English to describe Germany and other governments in the 1930s. It's just another way to Godwin a political discussion.

And let me be perfectly clear. Discussions on this board with many of the DU anti-Democratic Party extremists is almost exactly like discussions I regularly have with Tea Party extremists elsewhere. It's all emotional argumentation, rejection of data that doesn't fit the preferred narrative, outright tribalism, puerile childishness (like posting ROTFL emotes), pure unreasoned hatred, and the conflation of their on the spot conspiracy theorizing with actual established fact.

Let me repeat. Expecting any organization to be 100% perfect from criminal actions like Snowden took is unreasonable. But just like the Tea Partiers with their white-hot hatred of the United States government, the cognitive dissonance of thinking that the NSA is all-knowing and all-powerful while at the same time being completely unable to do anything right (because it's government), is just par for the course.

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