It wasn't "divisive" until it was revealed to exist, and the narrative was pushed. The division was sowed. Before people knew of the extensive surveillance, t

It wasn't "divisive" until it was revealed to exist, and the narrative was pushed. The division was sowed. Before people knew of the extensive surveillance, there was no division - you were nuts for thinking that our government was capable of trampling on the law to do something like this in secret. It's only after the revelations that the waffling around whether it was legal and whether it was ethical started to arise.