Obama has been immensely pro-mass-surveillance through-out his tenure, what could possibly inspire confidence in this drivel?
In upcoming news: Trump cuts back on emission caps for automakers so the next president cannot cut them back further!
No thanks, that attitude sounds poisonous and dismissive of reality, dismissive of our ability to live and govern and grow and learn.
I voted for Dennis Kucinich that election, a person who did not vote for USA PATRIOT. Many people stood up for human rights and values and real freedom. It wasn't something that took a spine, it's something that takes common sense and compassion and logic.
"VT At-Large Rep. Bernard 'Bernie' Sanders Independent Nay"
Nay: 66
Like Sanders is any kind of special snowflake. You don't have to get socialism to get someone against mass surveillance.
Surveillance expansion continued or even accelerated, as did our endless wars. Obamacare is a Republican proposal even... it's based on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts insurance mandate.
The only shift was in the culture war issues. The Culture War Show is really just a distraction.
Trump won largely by styling himself as an actual alternative. Many people who didn't even like him personally voted for him on the idea that he might be a path out of the conventional corporate statist duopoly.
Personally I doubt it. Look at his picks. I predict that there will be a lot of noise but little actual change. His trolling will be a great distraction.
We've also seen a new season of the Culture War Show begin, featuring a plot involving the epic battle of Red Pill alt-righers vs the social justice warrior league. There will be much arguing on the Internet.
Meanwhile the consolidation of global corporate-state power will continue. Combatants on both sides of the culture war will see an expansion in surveillance and the student loan and mortgage debt indenture system.
This is true. Trump is almost entirely bereft of political philosophy - he was a Democrat until it made sense to be a Republican. He changes policy positions depending on who's asking the question. Sometimes in the same press conference.
A guy like that is not going to make huge changes.