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In reply to the discussion: So to sum up our new Realpolitik: [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)talk about people who believe, "It's OK to spy on all Americans" because we have a "Democratic president", you'd think that DU was absolutely overrun with such people.
For every person on DU who might have a position that modestly includes any part of that proposition, there are 10 more who would argue no such thing, and yet are improperly "accused" of having that belief. It's like a witch hunt here these days.
There have been times when a rational balanced argument was met with a rational, balanced counter-argument. Not so much lately.
These days, if a person speculates that while what Snowden did may be good for the country in the long run, it may still be true that the government has a prosecutable case against him for improperly handling classified materials, then that person is liable to be excoriated and labeled with the usual pejoratives.