Explain to me please... NSA story

[newthinking]

Please be so kind as to explain to me...

We have a legislative system that is currently incredibly unresponsive.

Inertia and big money move legislation. But legislation for the welfare of the common guy often takes incredible energy before anything is done.

Washington is completely REACTIVE. They rarely do proactive. So if regulations, legislation, or heaven forbid, protective legislation is needed, it pretty much only happens when people heavily DEMAND it.?

So, we have a serious problem. The anger behind spying is not really about the fact that some spying takes place, rather that there is almost no trust in this arena because the government is still in the dark ages as far as having few appropriate regulations and protections, as well as mechanisms for transparency. And what regulations or protections we have are pretty much failing the digital age.

So how exactly do we get this fixed? Especially when no administration wants to take the heat that is required (aka public pressure) to build adequate pressure to get congress (and the administrations) to do what is needed?

At the same time, the reaction of even the "good guy" administration, is to quell public discourse, apply all means of counter spin, "shoot the messengers" type activity, creates internal programs to quell even historical transparency in the form of prosecuting and threatening whistleblowers.

All while doing everything to diffuse the power of the public to react and demand change?

Anyone want to tell me exactly what this is going to achieve, other than the system continuing on the same trajectory? And please also let us know how we are supposed to move our democracy, when we are constantly told by the same politicians and support teams that "public energy and movements" are required to fix things?