Why are there so many apologists on this board for the civil liberties overreaches of this...

[woo me with science]

79. This board is heavily propagandized.

Corporate government has very deep pockets. We are relentlessly propagandized to accept a new authoritarian "normal."

Even before these scandals, there has been a creepy uptick in posts cheerfully announcing that we don't need these silly civil liberties and protections. It's worth noting that these posts come from the same, predictable group that defends every single corporate and war outrage coming from this administration.

I don't buy for a moment that Americans don't still cherish things like freedom of the press and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. Every poll shows that we are angry as hell and feel assaulted on all sides and *not* represented by our own government.

IMO it's important to keep bringing the discussion back to the fundamentals: We are talking about our fundamental rights, freedoms, and civil protections here. We need to call out the garbage when we see it and expose the bids to circle the Red and Blue wagons around unconscionable violations of our freedoms as the manipulative propaganda they really are..