wirehead-wannabe:THIS DO MUCHI really wish Johnson was a viable choice solely because of this. There
wirehead-wannabe:THIS DO MUCHI really wish Johnson was a viable choice solely because of this. There is literally no one else in the field right now promising to curb the power of the NSA the way he is.Also while we’re talking about similarities between Sanders and Johnson: neither one of them is likely to get involved in another Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/Libya/Vietnam/etc.And yeah, Sanders economic stuff seemed like fairy dust to me but I didn’t think he had a real chance of actually getting any of his obviously stupid stuff passed.Okay, libertarian confession: I don’t get this.Like, I’m Against the NSA spying on people; it’s a violation of civil liberties; I don’t think it will do any good; etc.But I just don’t understand being really, really concerned over it. It’s completely non-threatening to me personally (and to the vast majority of other people who are very concerned about it). And the broader effect on the economy / society at large is pretty close to non-existent. Mainly, the innocent people who are harmed by it seem to be the actual whistleblowers exposing it, like Snowden and Manning.I guess the concern is: now the NSA is monitoring metadata, it’s but a slippery slope to the KGB dragging people off to gulags for political dissent! But is this really a salient concern for people?Because if we’re going to draw a line in the sand against the expansion of government power, I can think of many other issues (pretty much all of them) that have greater practical relevance. Like…loosen immigration restrictions, end the War on Drugs, get the government out of education, get the government out of healthcare, etc.Actually, even the financial regulations that were put into place with the Patriot Act and expanded since then have much more of a deleterious effect, and I hardly ever see anyone talk about them (except for Mark Calabria at the Cato Institute). -- source link
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