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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)They like to believe that their leaders are honest, trustworthy, and need no accountability.
They hate those that try to upset their carefully crafted bubbles of denial. They hate whistle-blowers, investigative journalists, protestors (OWS) and government transparency. They use ad hominem attacks on those that ask for transparency, rationalizing that we don't need transparency in government. They have blind faith in their leaders.
Some will rationalize that we might have needed transparency during the Bush admin but we don't now with Pres Obama. They not seem to understand that the very powerful NSA/CIA Security State that was given carte blanche control and an unlimited budget under the Bush admin is the exact same organization today. We have no reason to trust them. We need to have oversight.
*Authoritarian - adj. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority (NSA/CIA), as against individual freedom.
The term "authoritarian" is not pejorative.