And then people on HN and Reddit and Twitter and elsewhere gasp "how were people so short-sighted and stupid to support Patriot Act back then, unlike us, who ar

And then people on HN and Reddit and Twitter and elsewhere gasp "how were people so short-sighted and stupid to support Patriot Act back then, unlike us, who are so smart and enlightened". The current situation is the prime example of how, except it isn't even comparable to the shock of 9/11 that people experienced back then.