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In reply to the discussion: Snowden and the paranoid state [View all]UTUSN
(70,793 posts)a key to all the SNOWDEN/GREENWALD hysteria and Libertarianism. BookTV had a panel the other day on (paraphrasing) "Security and the" modern world or State, and it was at something called The Independent Institute. My antennae popped out when one of the panelists said something that sounded Third Way, to the effect that we are not in a Left-Right fight, that all politicians on either side were THE SAME.
The same old "NO DIFFERENCE" crap. Sure enough, Wiki showed it to be a Libertarian think tank. Paranoia is one key.
But in another one of these threads I was surprised to see a long familiar DUer I've respected forever falling for the current jargon catch words, and her ultimate justification was that she is strong for THE CONSTITUTION. Yes, along with the TeaBaggers constantly jabbering about (their version of) THE FOUNDING FATHERS. I just saw a SNOWDENite thread with the latest epithet, "Post-Constitution."