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(32,139 posts)amd it is a deliberate tactic we are seeing more and more.
When you can no longer dispute the abuses of power being committed against Americans by our own government, you launch an all-out campaign to try to give the impression that people don't care and to normalize them, ...even when they include the most outrageous, unconstitutional violations of privacy imaginable.
I just came from another thread where I posted links showing the US government (1) refusing to let citizens know what information has been spied upon and stolen from them, (2) actively defending LYING about what they have collected not only to citizens, but also to the *courts,* and (3) actively abusing information gained illegally from spying to ARREST, FABRICATE EVIDENCE TRAILS, and IMPRISON Americans.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5251289
It was greeted with a yawn and a comment that it would be "normal" and that citizens need only get a subpoena.
Trying to normalize the unconscionable is pretty much the only tactic, aside from lying, that they have left.
"Third Way blase" serves only to drive home exactly how corrupt the Third Way machine has truly become, and the depths of the corruption and abuses of power they are willing to engage in and defend.
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