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by idlewords 3481 days ago
Traditionally this role has been played by the ACLU and by major news organizations.
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And the vast majority of media entities now just do the bidding of the power (for one side or another), while ACLU supporters have gone into hibernation thinking the civil rights warrior, Barrack Obama, will protect them. That's unlike the NRA activists who are always highly vigilant about any encroachment on their gun rights.

My hope is that although Trump will probably go to the extremes for surveillance and other rights violations, at least now more people will start to wake up and realize what kind of power they're allowing the government to have while they "don't care about that issue".