ELI5: Between Snowden, the DNC Wikileaks, and the current CIA Wikileaks, how can anyone believe that the US has anything close to a functional democracy (rep. republic)?
Most people aren't aware of this stuff. When it hits the news they dismiss it as an aberration and forget. Our media is not doing its job. The online world and the TV world are quite different places. And the old people who vote are still watching TV. But even they are online now.
Secrecy is required for these insidious subverters of the will of the people to operate at all. Take it away from them and they get afraid. Whistleblowers fight for human freedom more so than any soldier.
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n/a coolshifts 2017-03-09
Most people aren't aware of this stuff. When it hits the news they dismiss it as an aberration and forget. Our media is not doing its job. The online world and the TV world are quite different places. And the old people who vote are still watching TV. But even they are online now.
n/a Hasbara4U 2017-03-09
My 93 yo grandmother used to read Zero Hedge.
n/a dsk123 2017-03-09
That's dope
n/a River_Jester 2017-03-09
The most hopeless of slaves are the ones who believe that they are free. Ik, ik, it's from zeitgeist buts it is a good quote nonetheless.
n/a HashtagDadJoke 2017-03-09
We don't. And we haven't for decades.
It's time to act to take it back.
n/a Mecca1101 2017-03-09
How?
n/a HashtagDadJoke 2017-03-09
r/OccupyLangley.
n/a thinkB4Uact 2017-03-09
Secrecy is required for these insidious subverters of the will of the people to operate at all. Take it away from them and they get afraid. Whistleblowers fight for human freedom more so than any soldier.