I moved to USA from Europe, here is my POV: Citizens are mostly poorly educated relative to Europe. Also politicians are more corrupt. So the politicians have

I moved to USA from Europe, here is my POV: Citizens are mostly poorly educated relative to Europe. Also politicians are more corrupt. So the politicians have a free hand. For an empirical illustration : http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVOuK_KB9ew http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVOuK_KB9ew 85,000 callers out of 90,000 callers to a California senator (representing among others Silicon Valley) wanted a no vote. Senator voted yes. Or http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hd981 http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hd981 Confidence level is 15% with media support, this is normal: http://pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm http://pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm You have a choice of 2 parties. It is not a Euro style multi party democracy. Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland So: most people support Snowden, despite thought shaping that happens on forums. And Aaron. And Ian. Daniel. Hastings. But in age of big data, surveillance meta data can be used bayesian/predictive for internal politics (not for 'scary' external imagination). The winning move then is to be or appear passive. And anticapte tyrany. hth