“We don’t have a domestic spying program” Just incredible . . .

[sabrina 1]

22. This comment is so sad because it demonstrates how successful the 'grooming' of citizens

over time has been to accept things that they should never accept. To create apathy, a sense of 'oh well, this is how it is, so what'.

This is one of the worst effects of the years of indoctrination, using the most successful tool of all, government created fear of one enemy or another, because this country always seems to have enemies no matter how many lives are lost or money spent, to 'fight' them.

When you read the history of totalitarian states and the people who lived in them, how they were able to control the populations, it is this kind of blase dismissal of the loss of basic rights and the acceptance that the government is all powerful so why worry, just carry on, that strikes you the most. Iow, people learn to just 'live with it'. We looked at those states and felt superior to them, it could not happen here.

Well, it has, and when you read the excuses right here on DU every day, such as this one, they sound so familiar.

However, we are not yet at the point where this is the prevailing attitude, because there are still millions of Americans who are appropriately outraged at the out of control behavior of their government.

Anger and outrage leads to action. THAT is the antidote to apathy.