Do Liberals/Progressives Support the Patriot Act?

Cons whine that liberals criticized the Patriot Act under Bush but love it under Obama. The truth is a little more nuanced, but conservatism today is not about nuance. I think there are probably provisions in the Patriot Act that I would approve of, and a lot that I wouldn't.

I am not in favor of Obama simply continuing the act, or adding to it, in fact I voted for Obama partly because he was a professor of constitutional law so you'd think he at least knew what was in the Constitution, unlike the previous president who saw the Constitution as a vague, 'quaint' set of voluntary guidelines, mostly obsolete. I'm the first one to say Obama has disappointed us liberals on that score. But laws like this are easier to pass than to repeal or even to allow to time out.

Once a law like this is in place, a president's tendency is to want to 'cover his a**' by allowing it to continue rather than be accused of making us less safe. And this is especially true of an embattled president like Obama who faces an opposition party that only wants to destroy him, and that reacts in predictable fake outrage at -anything- he does.

The techocracy was inevitable, regardless of the "parties" involved. The counter measure for those opposed is rather obvious: divest your lives of the ubiquitous technology immediately. How many are carrying around what is essentially a tracking device in their pockets right now?

Re-learn to live without, if you would avoid all that comes with it.

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